Re: hemingway
jordie chambers (jordiekc@rocketmail.com)
Mon, 07 Jun 1999 07:07:43 -0700 (PDT)
Why is it that any 20th century male who writes
> about perfering the company of men is clearly hiding
homosexual
> tendincies? Why is it that someone who struggles with
machoism, someone
> who is trying to prove himself a man, define himself is
definately hiding
> sexual desires for men. I find the whole thing
upsetting. It's not that
> they couldn't be gay, but damn it let's have a little
more evidence than
> "repression."
>
> -j
I don't find Ernest Hemingway's homosexuality, if it's
true, upsetting. If I was an incorrigible homophobe, my
love for his art would remain. There are morons
everywhere who will tell you that his struggle for
machismo and the subsequent truth about his homosexuality
describes his character in full. These, and other morons,
upset me. I am going to sound unoriginal and childish in
the next few sentences, but I don't believe I'm unoriginal
and childish.
It's about sterotyping. It's natural, it's fine, the
human mind is built to categorize information into neat
piles or types. Everybody can be dissected and typed into
a dichotomy of personal attributes. Each branch of the
dichotomy is a category inside another category - each
category a stereotype. Hemingway, in one of those
branches, is a homosexual. To look at that one branch and
deduce what must be on the other branches based on what
was observed is a characteristic of morons. For someone
to deduce that Hemingway is a homosexual based on a
repression of emotion is moronic. Even more moronic is
the assumption that his literature will reveal his
homosexuality or his homosexuality will reveal his
literature.
I'm not insinuating anyone that challenges Hemingway is a
moron, I just can't stand to see Hemingway abused by morons.
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