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Now, I don't intend to get into an argument about all this. I just think I'm saying some pretty obvious stuff, so that I can say the following: has anyone replied to Foucault and the others who make such points as I have above? If yes, for pity's sake, please add a reply into the article If not, too bad. Perhaps we could add: "Most trained philosophers in English-speaking countries pretty much ignore Foucault, however." That would be both accurate and relevant, I imagine... --LMS

Without having read Foucault (even though I think I should) I would interpret the "social construction" as follows: society wants to neatly divide people into (bad) homosexuals and (good) heterosexuals, forcing everybody to pick their side, while in reality it's a spectrum with everybody being a little bit of both (mostly based on the people they meet and like), some more on one side than on the other. Akin to the criticism of the "race" concept I would imagine, which society wants to define but biologists can't find an objective basis for. --AxelBoldt

	Revision 8 . . December 14, 2001 2:53 am by AxelBoldt
	Revision 7 . . December 14, 2001 2:42 am by Larry Sanger [Foucault. Ugh]
	Revision 6 . . December 14, 2001 2:41 am by Larry Sanger
	Revision 5 . . December 14, 2001 1:44 am by Ed Poor [straw man, needs revision]
	Revision 4 . . November 30, 2001 6:42 am by Ed Poor
	Revision 3 . . (edit) November 30, 2001 5:17 am by (logged).191.188.xxx
	Revision 2 . . November 30, 2001 5:11 am by AxelBoldt
	Revision 1 . . November 30, 2001 5:05 am by Ed Poor