tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post4252667070300322330..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: There be tygersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-3774871642463368752017-03-31T13:43:01.003-05:002017-03-31T13:43:01.003-05:00"The dream was that, with children of "m..."The dream was that, with children of "mixed" marriages (assuming race is a valid category, not an invalid construct imposed by white Europeans on the world) would dissolve racial differences based on appearance (which is all they are based on)"<br /><br />If you have the opportunity and it comes to your area I highly recommend going to see Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni's one-person show: "One Drop of Love." It is at once a history of the concept of race in America and how it involved alongside her personal history and exploration of her own identity as a mixed race person. To say anything about it would be to give too much away, except to say that it is very illuminating on this issue and leaves you asking more questions then have been answered. <br /><br /> She follows it up with a Q and a session with the audience and that is fascinating as well to hear the accounts, observations, frustrations, and questions from people from different ethnic backgrounds and skin color. <br /><br />http://www.onedropoflove.org/the-solo-show/<br /><br />trexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16838170190127187564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-62514484168671833412017-03-31T08:24:51.990-05:002017-03-31T08:24:51.990-05:00The idea that we are fundamentally sexual beings (...The idea that we are fundamentally sexual beings (rather than spiritual, or moral (or not, but should be), etc., started with the Vienna school that gave Freud his prominence. And since Freud is out of favor, why not genetics?<br /><br />Now we tie sexual preference to our humanity, and people with "low sex drives" are abnormal, maybe not even human, certainly stunted and unhappy and to be pitied. Celibates are just in-human, while people with multiple sexual identities are to be admired.<br /><br />Or something. And now, in defense of race, we take up the language of the most virulent racists. <br /><br />So it goes.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-37492262881720390602017-03-31T08:07:52.193-05:002017-03-31T08:07:52.193-05:00Last summer I got into a discussion with my lesbia...Last summer I got into a discussion with my lesbian niece who's in college - have I mentioned she's been in many anti-Trump demonstrations? - and she started using categories of sexual orientation that I had to ask her to define. And I'm her gay uncle. I can't keep up. I told her not to be surprised when those all changed several times before she turned 60. I'll bet a lot of sci-rangers would claim all that was a matter of hard genetic inheritance. Only that will all change too in the next four decades. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.com