Reply #180: I believe you're misinterpreting eridani [View All]

[JackRiddler]

But please don't flame me!

Eridani's "gay is treatable" is meant ironically on the "treatable": a person can "treat" themselves by denying their natural individual desires and re-closeting themselves. She(?) is comparing this to congenitally fat people who are hounded by culture and the diet industry to "treat" themselves by starvation, speed pills, quack cures, etc. but for whom there may not actually BE a credible "treatment."

In the same way, mentally "deviant" people might be "treated" with electro-shock or other damaging "therapies" that change nothing in the underlying condition.

In the same way, by the way, black people historically found ways to "treat" themselves, under pressure from the white culture. If they were light-skinned, they might try to "pass" as whites. Otherwise, they might adopt an aggressive version of "white" culture, or use cosmetics to lighten their skin and straighten their hair.