This is interesting. Venugopal came out as a 'leftist' earlier in this column. Now as bisexual, nondalit and payyannurkkaran.
I can see from the emotion that he is sicerely hurt [ though I never suspected any personal reference while reading Ahmed Rafeek's take]. But suppose a future researcher reading this text without considering the whole context and temporal factors . This could prove out to be an instance of homophobic writing, I fear!! Consider this reinforcement in his latest mail "Payyanur as a place and dalit as a community is particularly NOT known for homosexuals" What does this imply? Kottayam or kozhikkode and Mappila/ Nasrani are known for homosexuals? "I must say that referring to one's sexual orientation irresponsibly and obviously with a conscious or unconscious motivation to lower your imaginary opponent's esteem in the eyes of a community like this forum is bad enough." Will this community take "Payyannur Dalit Homosexual" as derogatory? [even if that interpellates nobody in reality] which is derogatory, Payyannurkkaran, Dalit or Homosexual? Anyway, I am happy to see idenity being complicated further. More happy to see Venugopal complaining about generic tabs like "Malayalee" hope this discussion will become more and more personal [ which issue can be more political than personal? Anyway, personal is theoretical too] -- Dileep R I thuravoor --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
