Word: cheneyism
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...Ilana Sichel’s recent column (Column, “In and Out,” Oct. 22) elaborated, I understand why Vice President and Mrs. Cheney are upset and did not want a complimentary mention of their gay daughter given in front of a national audience. No one in today’s society wants the issue of homosexuality to focus on their family, but the fact is—it does...
...most interesting bit of the frenzy around Mary Cheney has more to do with societal context and less to do with familial love. Both parties, of course, agree on this point. But what I am interested in are the dimensions of the views from the inside, whose measurements are similar across the dividing lines of identities. So while the lived experiences of black/Muslim/Jewish/Latino/Asian/queer/female residents of the United States differ in qualitatively significant ways, something remains constant for all of us. For Harvard students who are members of so-called “minority groups,” what...
Using Mary Cheney as a test case, let’s examine the two clear-cut camps. The first is choosing to live with constant consciousness of ourselves and our position vis-a-vis lines of oppression, and the second is to act as the individual within who is blissfully unaware of inequality. Clearly I am simplifying matters, but I think the camps represent the two poles between which we wander: paranoia and ignorance...
...insistence on its superiority and his willingness to impose it by force. The problems with his tactics are numerous: disrespect for privacy, insensitivity to personal choices and so on. Furthermore, though, they highlight the deep divide between the two camps. His actions are driven by a conviction that Mary Cheney, as a member of an oppressed group, should act out of loyalty for her cohorts. She should be a good ally and use her position of relative power to insist upon full marriage benefits for same-sex couples...
That argument, however, is contingent upon Cheney buying into an ideology that necessarily sees a weighty connection between herself and, say, a working-class male immigrant whose primary relationships are with men. The ideology demands that we see ourselves as agents only insofar as we are positioned in a social web. Whatever we do, whatever political platform we speak for, we do so as a composite of identities. And if we happen to be Mary Cheney, we do so as the lesbian daughter of a wealthy white vice president of the United States...