Dear All
It is also interesting that social groups that were once discriminated against are now part of the mainstream. Take gay men. They have consolidated themselves. The strict freudian interpretation of homosexuality is that they have an obssession with the phallus, this it has been said is because they are terrified of having it taken away from them. So they use it as often as possible to remind themselves its there. They have it is alleged castrating mothers and fathers who are weak.
The terrible thing about being straight and male is people seem to fear you, they see you as a threat perhaps rightly so.
I think the importance of gay culture is that they are very observant people and can pass comment on society. Its a strange fact of life is that society needs outsiders to analyse it, for it to remain working. Unpleasently enough society seeks to punish these very same people. People love to punish people who speak the truth.
It is also interesting that social groups that were once discriminated against are now part of the mainstream. Take gay men. They have consolidated themselves. The strict freudian interpretation of homosexuality is that they have an obssession with the phallus, this it has been said is because they are terrified of having it taken away from them. So they use it as often as possible to remind themselves its there. They have it is alleged castrating mothers and fathers who are weak.
The terrible thing about being straight and male is people seem to fear you, they see you as a threat perhaps rightly so.
I think the importance of gay culture is that they are very observant people and can pass comment on society. Its a strange fact of life is that society needs outsiders to analyse it, for it to remain working. Unpleasently enough society seeks to punish these very same people. People love to punish people who speak the truth.