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sakuratea June 30 2015, 05:30:13 UTC
There was something... almost dangerously reifying in the Kennedy opinion on marriage. I can't help myself, I keep going back to Gramsci and wondering whether this means... something about the power of dominant society to co-opt and incorporate homosexuality. I don't know. I really, really thought it was just going to happen, the most surprising thing about the decision, to me at least, has been my lack of surprise. It had become all but inevitable... Also, I am weirdly pessimistic that this will bleed a lot of progressive-ism from the LGBT movement. I was much more excited when it happened in Colorado, and I do feel that if we have marriage, to exclude a class if people from it is fundamentally wrong. I get what you're saying, though. It seemed... somehow, incredibly gender normative, for all that it should have been (and maybe it still is/was) such a transgressive moment. Somehow, it made me think of marriage in Japan (and a lot of other places in Asia) where you can be a part of your natal household (your father's) or your married one (your husbands), you're never the head of your own.

Like I've said, I think that the decision is fundamentally a civil rights victory, it's just... odd. I don't know.

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