Comments on: A Unifying Force http://gorgonqueen.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/a-unifying-force/ Turn to Stone Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:50:04 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: emma http://gorgonqueen.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/a-unifying-force/#comment-98 emma Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:21:25 +0000 http://gorgonqueen.wordpress.com/?p=60#comment-98 'Their little universe' is a wonderful key phrase to sum up the delusion of any fundamentalism. Pity they don't see that "the" universe not only doesn't need to recognize their possessiveness, but continues to function without even considering it. ‘Their little universe’ is a wonderful key phrase to sum up the delusion of any fundamentalism. Pity they don’t see that “the” universe not only doesn’t need to recognize their possessiveness, but continues to function without even considering it.

]]> By: gorgonqueen http://gorgonqueen.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/a-unifying-force/#comment-95 gorgonqueen Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:39:36 +0000 http://gorgonqueen.wordpress.com/?p=60#comment-95 I think it's bigger than that, Callan. I think it's more than queerness, and one's willingness to own it. I think it's about a basic mental type that cuts across social, political and gender types... the pinched, authoritarian martinet who can't stand anything in their little universe being out of place. It's what makes them all basically the same, regardless of whatever little identity fortress they huddle in. And that's what's interesting about being trans... it apparently challenges <em>everybody</em>. I think it’s bigger than that, Callan. I think it’s more than queerness, and one’s willingness to own it. I think it’s about a basic mental type that cuts across social, political and gender types… the pinched, authoritarian martinet who can’t stand anything in their little universe being out of place. It’s what makes them all basically the same, regardless of whatever little identity fortress they huddle in.

And that’s what’s interesting about being trans… it apparently challenges everybody.

]]> By: Callan http://gorgonqueen.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/a-unifying-force/#comment-91 Callan Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:08:05 +0000 http://gorgonqueen.wordpress.com/?p=60#comment-91 I am reminded of Katherine Hawkins' mother, who announced to the crowd "My daughter got rid of all her ambiguities and contradictions -- and dumped them right onto us." Maybe the real label on the box is "The fears I hold about my own queerness." So much easier to simplify by try to break the mirrors rather than come to grips with our own human reflection. I am reminded of Katherine Hawkins’ mother, who announced to the crowd “My daughter got rid of all her ambiguities and contradictions — and dumped them right onto us.”

Maybe the real label on the box is “The fears I hold about my own queerness.” So much easier to simplify by try to break the mirrors rather than come to grips with our own human reflection.

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