Sarah Schulman Quotes
What Is Most Difficult To Face, But Increasingly Obvious As Gay Visibility Provokes Containment, But Not Equality, Is That Homophobes Enjoy Feeling Superior, Rely On The Pleasure Of Enacting Their Superiority, And Go Out Of Their Way To Resist Change That Would Deflate Their Sense Of Supremacy. Homophobia Makes Heterosexuals Feel Better About Themselves. It's Not Fear - It's Fun.
We Know From Photographs Of Happy Picnicking White Families Laughing Underneath The Swinging Body Of A Tortured, Lynched Black Man, Or Giggly White U.S. Soldiers Leading Naked Iraqis On Leashes, Or Terrified Humiliated Jews Surrounded By Laughing Smiling Nazis That Human Beings Love Being Cruel. They Enjoy The Power, And Go Far Beyond Social Expectation To Carry Out The Kind Of Cruelty That Makes Them Feel Bigger. In Short, Homophobia Is Not A Phobia At All. It Is A Pleasure System.
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