Word: oppenheimer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Noah D. Oppenheim '00 is a social studies concentrator in Adams House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
...Noah D. Oppenheim '00 is a social studies concentrator in Adams House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
...Oppenheim remains unconvinced of the oppressive weight of "cultural" questions, he might ask himself why many queers who are comfortable with the "moral" aspects of their sexuality choose to remain closeted. While it is true that Harvard is often admirably queer-friendly, especially on level of Faculty and House masters, it has failed the queer community many times. The reassignment of first-year roommates at the request of a student who could not live with a homosexual is one example that has surfaced in the past years...
Finally, it is interesting to note Oppenheim's selective blindness in the observance of BGLTSA posters. While the phrase "oppressive paradigm" may remain for him an amusing snippet of lit-crit jargon, the pervasiveness of outspoken heterosexuality on this campus cannot be denied. Has Oppenheim never seen a heterosexually risqué poster for a Harvard dance, a cappella concert or theatrical production? While innocuous enough, the prevelance (and thus the privileging) of heterosexual behavior and the attendant invisibility of homosexuality legitimizes a climate of homophobia. If, on the other hand, Oppenheim is offended solely by the word "vulva...
...campus. If Harvard and our larger communities are to accept queers, we must accept them culturally as well as politically. We must accept them as individuals with the capacity for love and lust. The outspoken nature of "Clit Notes" is in part a protest against people such as Oppenheim who consider lesbians de facto excluded from moral behavior because of the "threat" they pose to America's social cohesion. SIMON J. DEDEO '00 April...