tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743841912028246535.post1393696216987312606..comments2023-10-10T06:48:40.299-03:00Comments on the feminist librarian: what matters in "gay marriage" - "gay" or "marriage"?annajcookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17573723390785613915noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743841912028246535.post-26315400153415491042013-04-30T10:02:35.151-03:002013-04-30T10:02:35.151-03:00Hi Matt,
Thanks for stopping by! And I do agree ...Hi Matt, <br /><br />Thanks for stopping by! And I do agree with you on this point:<br /><br />"People in or who are interested in or who identify as likely to end up in such relationships might want or need the people around them to behave in a manner conscious to the history of how those relationships were and are pathologized, demonized, and trivialized."<br /><br />It's perhaps analogous to situations where people argue that affirmative action programs (and other systems designed to address institutional/systematic/historic discrimination patterns) are "reverse discrimination," and that we shouldn't move forward with a sensitivity to the weight of past experience because that's "in the past" and somehow now, today, everything is magically better.<br /><br />I am not sure how that balance might look in practice -- the balance between honoring queer relationships equally, while respecting historical marginalization and the role that plays in shaping personal experience -- but I agree with you that it would be an importance dimension to account for.annajcookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17573723390785613915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743841912028246535.post-20911852463981268012013-04-30T01:52:38.810-03:002013-04-30T01:52:38.810-03:00I'm worried this is a bit tangential to the va...I'm worried this is a bit tangential to the various great points you've made here, but I've got this bee in my bonnet!<br /><br />You wrote, "Some people would argue [a couple being comprised of people of the same gender or sex] requires differential treatment."<br /><br />In, presumably not the intended way, I might actually agree with that? I think that people in or who are interested in or who identify as likely to end up in such relationships might want or need the people around them to behave in a manner conscious to the history of how those relationships were and are pathologized, demonized, and trivialized. <br /><br />That said, I think that's a complex issue that's kind of not germane to a discussion on legal statuses and forms of political representation. There an approach rooted in equality under the law does obviously make a lot of sense.<br /><br />So I suppose I'm probably working with a different meaning of "treated" than was intended either by you or those you were speaking about. : PMatt Nhttp://northupnews.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com