From a piece connected to another post:

"But the problem with erasing a line is you’ll soon discover — usually the hard way — that it was there for a reason. GK Chesterton warned that a society should never take a wall down until it knows the reason it was put up. A progressive is someone who demolishes the wall just for the sake of it and then hurriedly tries to re-erect it somewhere down the road when the rabid dog it was fencing in starts to eat his face."

This is so well put. This to me is queer theory in a nutshell. Destroy, just destroy. Every other time attempts have been made to just rip down boundaries instead of steadily and peacefully improving them, the result is bloody and millions die. Its as if there is indeed a rabid dog. And when society divides into lots of tiny groups all with uniforms and codes and jargon, the energy of that dog gets expended in petty things like parking spaces and silly feuds. This is a good thing, a very good thing. All the times people start coming together...young people...what do you get? isis. The Cultural Revolution. Stalin's Russia. Khmer Rouge. Even the Nazis: they removed all the social barriers and made one big Hitler Youth...Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer. Its a bad, bad idea. We have lines for reasons. After all, what exactly does the queer theory world look like?