Sexual is (not) Political – Part 2 – Prof Slavoj Zizek

tmp_10679-gorsel-1463884116
Trudeau, profiting from the parade

The irony of this parade is that the situation from decades ago is almost symmetrically inverted: now it is heterosexuality which is tolerated, of course, but it is expected from heterosexual majority not to display their orientation with too much pride since such display would be instantly qualified as heterosexist – heterosexuality is (not explicitly but subtly) perceived as a limitation, as a sexual orientation which is opportunistically satisfied with the old established patterns and avoids the risk to explore new liberating possibilities, as an impassive submission to the libidinal order imposed by the structure of social domination.
Continue reading “Sexual is (not) Political – Part 2 – Prof Slavoj Zizek”