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Similarly, the Jews who write for The Crimson's editorial page write on an amazing variety of issues of general concern, from Eric Clapton to queer culture, campus apathy to Republican politics, assuming a range of positions from left-liberal to neo-conservative. It is impossible to find a common perspective in their writings that could not also be found in the editorials of The Crimson's non-Jewish writers...
...hope Noah Oppenheim ("Reading `Clit Notes,"' Opinion, April 3) does not really speak for "many others" when he claims he's for "queer rights" but doesn't want same-sex desire to become too acceptable--purportedly because our society is not ready for this sort of "cultural integration...
...lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people can become "equal" members of society if they are ordered to keep their sexuality private, as Oppenheim would have it. The queer community can never be the "isolated moral and ethical enclave" that Oppenheim wishes it to be because youth from straight families often grow up to realize they are not heterosexual. I am not convinced that these separate queer and "wider" cultures can exist...
...maybe, the sexual liberation of society has already proceeded so quickly in other regards--given how fast attitudes have changed with respect to premarital sex and women's sexuality--that many people simply feel they are not yet ready to understand and accept a culture informed by queerness. Perhaps, in time, with the aid of rational and sensitive outreach efforts by the queer community, we will see a radically transformed cultural landscape. Just as the stigma attached to interracial couples is slowly dissipating, gay and lesbian couples will no longer provoke a second glance...
Either way, a sign that says "Vulva" does nothing to celebrate queer culture or facilitate its integration. It only serves to remind us that the last episode of "Seinfeld" is fast approaching...