Androphilia - Rejecting the gay identity; Reclaming Masculinity

Jack Donovan

Dissonant Hum

2012

252 páginas

8h 24m

ISBN-10: 0985452315

Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a taste in music, a hairstyle, a marketing demographic, a bumper sticker, a political agenda and philosophical viewpoint. Gay is a pre-packaged, superficial persona--a lifestyle. It's a sexual identity that has almost nothing to do with sexuality. Androphilia is a rejection of the overloaded gay identity and a return to a discussion of homosexuality in terms of desire. Homosexual men have been paradoxically cast as the enemies of masculinity--slaves to the feminist pipe dream of a "gender-neutral" (read: anti-male, pro-female) world. Androphilia is a manifesto full of truly dangerous ideas: that men can have sex with men and retain their manhood, that homosexuality can be about championing a masculine ideal rather than attacking it, and that the "oppressive construct of masculinity," despised by the gay community could actually enrich and improve the lives of homosexual and bisexual men. Androphilia is for those men who never really bought what the gay community was selling. It is a challenge to leave the gay world completely behind and to rejoin the world of men, unapologetically, as androphiles, but more importantly, as men.

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2.5 (Razoável)

I think the main problem that caused this sense of non belonging to the gay community on Jack Donovan, which led him to try to create a whole new identity, is that the community really pushes manly men out. There's no place for them. A man can't be a manly gay without being called heteronormative or straight-acting and they are like that because the old society expects that from them. But what if that is just his truth? Can't a man be "manly"? Not only on the looks, but the interests, the culture, everything? The book isn't deep enough but it feels like it's a great starting point.