Students tentatively connect the issue to male-male sameness, masculine violence, and elite contempt for women.
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Sameness
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Key Notes
The class tests whether Dante's issue is pride, sexual appetite, or the search for sameness, but Jiang implies these answers are still too shallow.
Jiang says Dante's issue with homosexuality is narcissism: in loving the same, one is effectively seeking oneself in the other.
A student links incest and homosexuality by saying both involve sex with one's own kind, and Jiang turns that into a social logic of exclusion.
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"There's kind of like the yin and yang go together. Yeah. And then the, Whereas when it's two men that, uh, the act is..."
"I wonder if it has to do with elite circles where they think two men are superior to women. So they refuse to. So..."
"Well, what are they obsessed about? Yeah. Yes. Could be pride to me. Pride."
"Uh, yes. I'd say they're, but they would be obsessed about finding other gay men. Okay. Yes. Yeah. Because it's difficult to know. It's..."
"The Greek legend of this man, so in love with himself, he looks at himself every single day. Okay. That gives us a clue..."
"In sex is having sex with your own kind, and so is homosexuality with your own kind, like your own gender."
"Exclusion. You understand? It's exclusion. The purpose of this is to exclude other people. The elite only want to maintain their privileges and block..."
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