Post-Gay

I got yelled at this year for saying that "we" (whatever that means - me and Kitty maybe) were post-feminist. But we are. I TA for classes of 150 that have 15 males in them. This is common in the Arts (my we), perhaps feminism hasn't yet penetrated engineering though. You know, I wouldn't mind a bit more vaginal centred architecture. Penis centered buildings are hard. Vagina centred buildings are soft, and perhaps a bit bloody. There is some gender-essentialism for you (yes you)

Anyway, Persky (some journalist) says that we are now post-gay in Canada and I find my self whole heartedly shaking my head in affirmation. This assertion is brought on by the latest defeat of the anti-gay marriage vote in parliament in early Dec. Persky claims that counties can be pre-gay (Korea), where gay is still under the radar, gay, (US) where gay is aesthetically and rhetorically militant, or post-gay, (Can, Netherlands) where the gay parade has passed and 20% of us have wet stains on our pants, but no one really cares. Though Persky claims that we still care, just not in the pre-orgasmic way that a gay culture cares. We're already lighting our smokes.

How do I feel about this? I feel a bit used. A bit wham bam and thank you maam. Ridden hard and put away wet. All this rhetoric, what is a poor evangelical boy to do. I mean I've been trained to meditate on texts for years - holding them up high in the sky. Now the texts are gone. Rhetoric has passed like last spring's fashions. And here we are - post-gay.