Moderator -
Now I must be getting dense in my old age...or is something missing from
this article that would cause it to make logical sense??
I know editors frequently edit an article down to uselessness...what
happened here???
I cannot mount a sensible agreement or disagreement to a thesis as I cannot
seem to find one in this piece of text..
Enlightenment...anyone??
Elizabeth
i cut and pasted the editorial hoping someone would react to it. am still
waiitng for some
moderator
In a message dated 5/22/2007 9:43:29 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Edit from The Times Of India
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SOTTO VOCE: Kind of Normal
23 May, 2007 l 0023 hrs ISTlYamini Lohia
A fairly recent movie encapsulates what one imagines the straight,
heterosexual man or woman must feel in our society today. A gay man wakes up
in the
morning and goes to high school, only to realise that homosexuality is the
societal norm whilst heterosexuality is frowned upon. Since he's attracted to
a
pretty classmate -- a girl -- he has to 'come out' all over again. Now, this
movie wasn't especially good, and certainly failed to explore the issues of
what is normal and abnormal in a society. But at a film festival on gender and
sexuality held in the capital recently, deviant sexuality predictably took
centre stage.
There were many worthy films that explored issues surrounding homosexuality
and queer sexuality. But the regular, average man or woman, confronting his
or her sexual issues in a rather puritanical society, were given short shrift.
It seems that for now, the avant-garde is 'cool'. The great Indian middle
class is therefore co-opting the atypical into the mainstream, by making it
hip
to be 'different'. Younger people are adopting the abnormal, making it
normal, and ending up alienating the majority.
It's a strange world where a person has to be apologetic for being attracted
to the opposite sex. Yet, that is what has happened in our excessively
politically correct times. All it takes is one bleeding-heart liberal to raise
an
objection about perceived anti-gay remarks, and one is derided as a
homophobic individual. The problem here isn't the motive behind a discussion
on queer
sexuality. No doubt it has more to do with removing the social stigma
attached to being gay, or lesbian or transgender, than an attempt to
marginalise the
mainstream. But in our eagerness to atone for our supposed sins, we go too
far, which creates more resentment and leads to the kind of bigotry we were
ashamed of in the first place
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