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1. frankogorman says:

   January 17, 2011 at 10:24 pm

   Re DADT: plans are in the making to have a large queer contingent in the April 9th Anti-War March in NYC with signs, “Don’t Enlist! Don’t Kill! (http://bit.ly/ezfyBr) As one of the most denigrated groups on the planet, there is no way we queers are going to participate in the demonization of (and war on) our Arab Muslim brothers and sisters or function as agents of US Empire. Besides all this i’m waiting for a gay soldier to please explain to me how he can kill anyone but especially someone of a sex that he, by nature, has an affinity for? Is this his internalized homophobia proving to the world that he is a real (i.e. violent) man?

   The Marines is the only branch of the military where there was some significant discomfort about DADT. Could it be that patriarchal society in general socializes straight men to objectify women as inferior beings who exist primarily to serve the needs of men sexually and domestically? Thus when a straight marine considers that a gay marine may look at him the way the straight marine looks at women . . . as inferior sex objects . . . he rebels against the very objectification he practices as a matter of course against women. Rather than embrace the feminine aspect of his psyche which he has been socialized to repress at all costs, the marine projects this self-hatred onto gays.

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