October 14th, 2012
darinkeesler
Zoom “The masculinization of homosexuality—no longer alienated; no longer identify with culture (against nature).  Being homosexual no longer facilitates a critical attitude to society.  Now h’s affirm some of the worst, +most conventional, tastes of his society:  sexism (hatred of women), consumerism, brutality, promiscuity  emotional dissociation.” From As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh:  Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980, by Susan Sontag. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 506. This quotation is from 1980.

“The masculinization of homosexuality—no longer alienated; no longer identify with culture (against nature).  Being homosexual no longer facilitates a critical attitude to society.  Now h’s affirm some of the worst, +most conventional, tastes of his society:  sexism (hatred of women), consumerism, brutality, promiscuity  emotional dissociation.”

From As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh:  Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980, by Susan Sontag. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 506. This quotation is from 1980.

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