DIAMOND MIND

“ SO THERE WAS THIS SORT OF CULTURE-WIDE GAME OF TELEPHONE, IF YOU WILL, IN WHICH THESE AUTHORITATIVE MEDICALIZED IDEAS COMING FROM VERY RAREFIED CIRCLES TRICKLED DOWN INTO THE LARGER CULTURE. I THINK THAT FOR PEOPLE [OF MY GRANDMOTHER’S GENERATION PARTICULARLY], HETEROSEXUAL SIMPLY BECAME A SYNECDOCHE FOR NORMAL. AND THAT’S CERTAINLY THE WAY FREUD TALKS ABOUT IT, THAT YOU KNOW, YOU ATTAIN HETEROSEXUALITY. THERE’S THIS PROCESS OF ATTAINING NORMALITY. ”