Oh, lor', not this again.
This is the script: Chris posts something with a vague flavour of
wind-up about it, usually fairly sexually explicit. People react, either
with bemusement or (usually fairly mild) affront. Chris decides that
reacting with bemusement or affront to open discussion of male
homosexuality is evidence of outrageous homophobia; blows gasket. Either
Chris or the other guy stomps off in a huff. Polite conversation resumes
after a hiatus.
Poetryetc. *is* fairly "polite", in a sense that is perhaps weighted
towards het discursive norms (not that a post about female employees
fellating their male bosses to gain advancement would have passed
altogether without comment, I'm sure, but it wouldn't have been *quite*
the same), and there is a temptation I suppose to try to prick the
bubble every once in a while. I don't understand the reason for the
blow-ups, though; there are surely less frenzied (and, ultimately,
impotent) ways of challenging heteronormative assumptions?
Dominic
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