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Further displays of my ignorance.

pointless and uncalled for

18:38 / 24.01.03

On the Duckie thread in Gathering the throbbing frontal lobes of Ganesh described the event as "Post-Gay". As I barely have an understanding of what constitutes post-modern, I certain can't suss this out.

So far my tiny little brain has come up with that it may be a descriptor for a state of being occuring after being gay, but as I understand it gay is a non-recindive/non-recessive state and thusly I have determined that this is unlikely to be the case. I'm curious, what does this mean?

Matthew Fluxington

18:49 / 24.01.03

Aw, Potus, don't put yourself down like that.

No matter what you do, you'll never be as dim as this moron. Rejoice!

pointless and uncalled for

18:55 / 24.01.03

I can't believe you managed to find my own interweb page.

Crap, no I must kill myself.

19:07 / 24.01.03

I may be wrong but I don't thi-i-ink 'post-gay' has any standard definition. My best guess would be that Duckie is (in a slightly self-consciously tongue-in-cheek way) allying itself along 'queer' rather than 'gay' lines ie. rejecting (what it characterises as) stereotypical gender labels in favour of something less conformist/constricting. I think it's saying it's advanced beyond the 'gay-as-identity' concept rather than homosexuality itself.

If that makes any more sense.

Alternatively, since I've been persuaded that 'gay' has a new meaning entirely divorced from sexual assumptions, it could be advertising itself as 'post-weak' or 'post-pathetic'...

pointless and uncalled for

09:46 / 26.01.03

Certainly does although the second definition certainly runs further with the Morrisey tie in.