Conclusions Regarding
Homosexuality, Homophobia, and the Elitism of Heteronormativity:
There is of course nothing
intrinsically symptomatic of a “phobia” in the practice of criticizing the
sexual habits of others; verily, I can say that the thought of being homophobic
never even crossed my mind until AFTER I had found reason to criticize
homosexual practices. Perhaps, had I been more fearful a priori, some tragedy in my own life might have been prevented,
though given that my critical view was the product not of irrational prejudice
but rather rational reflection upon trauma it was not homosexuality per se to which I responded, but rather
the entire cult of liberal individualism, as well as the transparent
proto-Fascism that this romantic movement produced. The entire notion that a
person’s sexuality ought to be “that person’s own business” is of course DEEPLY
authoritarian, simply because it is not in practice an INDIVIDUAL right. The practice
of sexuality must, outside of autoeroticism, by necessity include at least two
people, and even two people conspiring for mutual satisfaction, often at the expense
of a third party, might propagate a situation which is majoritarian and absurd.
The matter of personal preference is negligible, only because we have at
present no means by which to identify it, so no witch hunt could possibly be
led against potentialities that have not yet been put into actual social
practice. Appeals to the inherent entitlement that individuals should have
towards their own sexual advances is inane when one considers the probable futility
of any such gesture; even more inane is the suggestion that people “ought to be
free” to pursue alternative lifestyles simply BECAUSE of the existence of a
mainstream lifestyle, since that mainstream lifestyle (in this case,
heterosexuality) is so demonstrably disappointing and absurd that exposing
social deviants to the same “freedoms” would be to predispose them to the same
disappointments, competitions, and alienation. Most importantly, one must
recount that the entire notion that social criticism could simply be reduced to
phobias or weaknesses is in fact a very recent line of thinking, one which is
so totalizing and Fascistic that one would hope that the twenty-first century
would bring an end to it, especially in the wake of an entire century of human
rights abuses which were propagated under the assumption that morality was an
expression of impotence. Scapegoating was of course a symptom of this time as
well, however if we are to agree with Mr. Foucault that homosexuality is not
predisposition but an action, this line of criticism can hardly be equated with
genocide, since it is simply an attempt to uphold a social order that, while it
never had the grandeur that Fascists everywhere ascribe to their own lineages, still
offers a social order in which to operate and to actually have some chance of
ATTRACTING mates, a task which is practically impossible in a society without a
constantly evolving social order which is perpetually revised by questions of
moral teleology and responsibility. Homosexuality may not be the problem, but
its modus operandi verily is.
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