Posted on 03/31/2014 12:32:50 PM PDT by massmike
An upcoming LGBTQ seminar at the University of South Carolina Upstate (USCU) will teach students How to Be a Lesbian in 10 Days or Less and will focus on LGBTQ cultural mores.
According to the school’s website, theater artist Leigh Hendrix will perform her one-woman show, How to Be a Lesbian in 10 Days or Less, to kick off the sixth Bodies of Knowledge Symposium and Conference.
The show is a one-hour performance that follows Butchy McDyke, a motivational speaker and expert lesbian, as she “deftly guides her captive audience in an exploration of self-discovery and first love, coming out, lesbian sex, queer politics, and a really important Reba McEntire song.”
Hendrix encourages her audience to shout “I’m a big ‘ol dyke!” in a show that is “one part instructional seminar, one part personal story, and one party wacky performance art.”
The symposium is funded by outside grants as well as university funds according to Dr. Lisa Johnson, the Director of the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies at USCU.
Dr. Johnson declined to discuss what percentage of the funding was coming from the university.
“Until you call and ask how much money has been spent on heterosexual literature, I’m not going to answer that question,” Johnson told Campus Reform.
Earlier this month, the South Carolina House of Representatives voted to cut almost $70,000 in funding for two public universities, including $17,142 from USCU, over literature containing gay themes.
The symposium will also include presentations of papers from students, faculty, and community members “on topics related to LGBTQ lives and culture.”
“In a historical moment that defines ‘gay,’ ‘lesbian,’ and ‘trans’ according to highly assimilative models, we hope to document, analyze, and disrupt this too-easy cultural knowingness about what it means to be, become, advocate for, recognize, or represent any element of ‘the’ LGBTQ community (as if there is one unified community), as well as the various identities included in, compelled by, or excluded from that community,” reads a call for papers.
Suggested topics include queer places and regions, and LGBTQ uses of social media such as “the queerness of instagram, the transness of tumblr, displays of compulsory heterosexuality on Facebook,” and “the lesbigay selfie.”
Scheduled talks during the conference include “Trans, but Not Like You Think” and “The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays.” The two panel discussions are titled “Queer Moods, Moody Queers” and “How to Be Queer.”
Why can’t men be lesbians, too? This is discrimination.
Call it the Pepsi challenge. First try lesbo sex, then try hetero, see which one you prefer.
I didn't post anything about gay males. They are not the mirror image of lesbians in terms of causes. Lesbianism, as I said, is usually a willful shift due to a serious problem with a key male individual in the woman's life. The causes of homosexuality in males are much less defined.
I would agree that a good deal of male homosexuality is innate. The LGBT lobby would like us to think the same about female homosexuality, because it helps to promote their agenda. However, they would wrong on that for the most part.
Lazz might be interested in signing up for this.
I’ve never had lesbo sex, since I’m a guy. :-P
Isn’t that joke getting too stale?
Woohoo....sign me up
Step 1: Be born a woman, if born a man get a sex change.
Step 2: Have sex with a woman.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!
Step 5: Teach a 10 day seminar about it.
I think there’s a bit of both at play. There seems to be perhaps three demonstrable types of lesbians, the clear “masculine” dyke (borne of genetic dysfunction), the one you cited (bad experiences growing up with the opposite sex, abuse, forming singular attachments to other similar outcast females), and lastly, the teen/college-aged “lipstick lesbian” phenomenon (where booze, drugs, peer pressure and “experimentation” take hold). The latter usually reverts back to men, the middle group is harder to move (and would tend to require someone who can help them get past issues of trust and self-esteem), and the former is simply what they are.
It’s sad and twisted that ever since the gay lobby decided to apply political pressure to the field of psychiatry 4 decades ago, that dealing with the issue now has nothing to do with science or psychiatry and everything to do with political correctness. Bring a person confused about themselves (from the 2nd and 3rd categories) and a shrink will naturally assign them the “born that way dyke” diagnosis and pronounce that as “perfectly healthy and natural.” That is medical malpractice at its worst.
Same here, but I’m willing to try it.
Oh no, you have used the term “homo” to describe homosexuals. Since they don’t like that term, you’re HOMOphobic. See how much fun it is dealing with irrational people?
Listen to The Indigo Girls for three hours, and you’ll feel like hitting your head against a very hard wall.
The wife of one of my friends had a heterosexual friend on a softball team. The softball player said she was disgusted with how the many lesbians in the softball league tried to recruit young players. And not to play softball.
It still makes people chuckle.
When will these morons realize no one gives a rat’s ass about the ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ “community”?
This is a university, not a high school, but still...
The Upstate is a very conservative area. I live there. These roaches have infected every area of America. And they use our tax money to recruit.
ROFL
I may never set foot in Barnes & Noble again.
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