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by h4nkoslo
3412 days ago
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The implication is that the modern identity of "gay" is a recent, politicized, Western (& really more like American) construction. The further implication is that this identity is also deconstructable. Which seemingly refutes the whole idea of "innate gayness" in as much as it amounts to any particular pattern of behavior. |
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Yes, that's the implication, and it's one that most people who have studied historical attitudes to homosexual behavior agree with.
> Which seemingly refutes the whole idea of "innate gayness" in as much as it amounts to any particular pattern of behavior.
There is no refutation of that -- behavior and predispositions can be innate, but basing a person's identity on a certain set of them is a social construction. We know that is the case because all human societies exhibit homosexual behavior, but only some have adopted the concept of homosexuality as a personal identity, frequently as a binary opposite of heterosexuality -- and western society only did so somewhat recently.