Elizabeth Kantor’s “Queer Speak” and “Politically Incorrect… Literature” Book:
This is inspired by the ‘Post-Modern’ book by Elizabeth Kantor that I heard her lecture about… maybe not word-for-word, from her new book about things like “Queer Studies”… and what she reminded of about my experiences and culture in SF as well…
As San Francisco is my ‘hometown’ and in so many ways SF still affects me…
Kantor spoke about things intellectual and right up the alley of those living alternative lifestyles and I am trying to write a brief synopses here about what she had to say, and has a San Francisco Bay area person of the somewhat politically correct kind…
When I went to SF College and Berkeley and Harvey Milk Institute, and being the San Francisco Bay Area, a lot of animosity around of the more socially aware kind was going on and it was all about “Queer” culture and thinking and “Queer” was the word used to denote that kind of thinking, even if it was not your own lifestyle “Queer Speak” was all around and explaining everything from another perspective than before…
And even terms like “Breeders” for straight people were being used and “Dead Men Don’t Rape!” were slogans against hetero males and spray painted on SF city walls (and seen from streetcars and buses; and Gay men called one another “sister” and “girlfriend”, even the men who worked out at the gym and were all buff were into this new age and philosophy of liberal thinking that was Post-Modern Liberal Arts philosophy that took on a whole new way of expressing and living… that was whole new community way of viewing ourselves, one another and the world and society around us, and it was even a bit catty at times in its verbal expression… and even sometimes unkind and hateful…
The notion among many was accepted as well, one being that “men had been silently conspiring to oppress women since the beginning of time” as per Kantor… which ‘beginning’ is about six thousand years for Christians and millions of years, it would seem, even possibly billions of years for Evolutionists… for men to start oppressing the female gender… begin the idea of it…
And the lecture on intellectual TV by Author Elizabeth Kantor about her new book about “Politically Incorrectness English and American Literature” reminded me of all those San Francisco Area ways of viewing the world and ourselves and those that were thought still bigoted (whether they were or not), as many outside “Queer” thinking were hatefully viewed as unfriendly antagonists and Politically Incorrect monsters, and even the Holy Father of the Church who holds to and teaches Christian ideals that are as ancient as Jesus and His First Apostles and are even of the Jewish Thinking and Spiritual Tradition before then, the Pope became a bad guy too…
So San Francisco became a new age community for those who lived alternative lifestyles and the many wannabes, with their new philosophies and manners and political protesting parties such as the likes of “Act Up!” and some others… which bravely and sometimes brazenly marched like proverbial storm troopers and iconclasts ready to take on the world… beginning with our Federal Buildings and then the White House lawn and to the moon if need be, to stamp out oppression and to push anyone to the side that did not agree, or seemed a bit hesitant to the cause…
Like marching at “Stone Wall” as if still there now fighting for ‘alternative’ rights…
‘ready to fix all that’s wrong with the world!’
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