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Rubin is a Queer Theorist.

Posted by JohnHolt on 2026-February-4 21:11:21, Wednesday
In reply to Re: Rubin - Benign Sexual Variation. posted by Bromios on 2026-February-4 20:01:48, Wednesday
Rubin: Although its content varies, the format of a single sexual standard is continually reconstituted within other rhetorical frameworks, including feminism and socialism.

Bromios: And wouldn't it be similarly reconstituted in a realised concept of benign sexual variation? It's just another model, surely. One that is based on allowing any behaviour that occurs in "the absence of physical or moral harm."
Rubin is a Queer Theorist, so we probably need some more context to fully interpret what she says, and why.

When she says today's society has no broad concept of benign difference when it comes to sex, she is not proposing an alternative "model" as you seem to believe, but bringing attention to a glaring omission in the way we as a society contend with normal variation, such as Boylovers. She highlights a flaw of understanding - one of five planks she says perpetuate some kind of normative sexual politics she wants to radically undermine. This is the deconstructivist approach of a Queer Theorist.

Queer Theorists I'm sure would have, or did have a lot to say about the antisexualism and embedded chauvinism of the #MeToo movement, as they would gender differences in a broader sense.

The approach questions the necessity, and the internal consistency of social norms, and sexual politics, rather than providing firm answers or cues as to what is "moral" or desirable.

Queer Theory will not provide you with a final answer...
JohnHolt
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