Let's Talk About Sex, Baby

"The very notion that humans can be distinguished and categorized -- as if they belong to separate sexual species on the basis of whom and how they characteristically desire -- is a fundamentally novel and culture-bound historical development ... by and large a product of the nineteenth century ... Modern categories of sexual distinction, most prominently the homo/hetero distinction, are just that: modern inventions, social artifacts, not natural givens."

I came across this wonderful passage in a book I am reading called Queer Theory and the Jewish Question (Boyarin, Itzkovitz, Pellegrini, eds.)and decided it should be required fucking reading everywhere, if only to highlight the insane injustice whereby some people in our oh-so-modern enlightened times aren't entitled to the same human rights as others. Why should so-called "religion" be privileged over "liberty"? Don't we have laws protecting us from that?

Also, have you ever heard of "female sexual inverts"?
They are the nineteenth century version of a twentieth century invention we like to call "lesbians".

You know all these things we know to be true? (And I'm looking at you narrow-minded shmegegges out there) They aren't actually! Freaky, I know!

To progress! And true freedom for all.