Steve-O And a Right Hook to Bell

“it is this willingness to transgress racial boundaries within the realm of the sexual that eradicates the fear that one must always conform to the norm to remain ‘safe’” (M 367).

So white on white sex is the ONLY safe sex? Prophylactics are thrown out the window in the discussion of “racialized sexual encounters.” As Bell makes her argument, she bypasses the more obvious Otherness found in genitalia and decides to include skin color as an addition to sexual opposition. Bell is encouraging biracial encounters in an attempt to challenge the racist dominated white supremacy. To prove her argument, sex with Others is needed. I love how she cleverly calls a person’s sexual preference: “one’s mainstream positionality.”

Now to the world of fucking for experience, I think Bell’s decision to use blond-male-jock-boys as her study group undoubtedly has created generalizations on top of stereotypes on top of poor test subjects. Firstly, I think it would be safe to assume most Yale students come from the sheltered lives of prep schools and privilege (hmmm, can we say A&S). In many ways, as the socioeconomic rift between the uber-rich and middle and lower class grows, there is a separation of real life experience and commonality with the majority. I would not doubt that the rich Yaley African American males where talking about getting inside of as many white girls as they could as well….and they wouldn’t even have to leave campus to New Haven…how nice. The Yale boys transformation from innocence to experience is not analogous to every other white male in America, In fact it gives the other white males the sense of being “Others.” Can’t we all be an Other to someone? Are these boys really calling upon other-race women to witness and participate in their rite of passage, or are they just horny? And Ladies…I know you have a conquering type mentality as well. Any woman reading this blog is, or knows, someone of the same gender who tries to shop for sex in the same way. The difference is that those ladies don’t feel more experienced; I think they feel more powerful. There is a sense of sexual possession that infects their mind and makes them hungry for more material acquisitions [sexual experiences]. Ladies, do you agree or disagree? (Please comment). And what about the submissive sexual partner, male or female, regardless of race, are they “Others”?
Back to Bells test subjects and the Yale boys “affirmation of cultural plurality” through sex with the “Other”. In the mind of those not so fortunate (as to be a Yale jock…if you would call that fortune), to experience cultural plurality would mean to get rich and travel the world, not have sex with hot Asian ladies! Although, if that happened along the way…

Furthermore, I disagree with Bells assumption that the boys aren’t attuned to the racial domination of their forefathers…I wonder if there were any Jews in this group of jocks? Again Bell weakens her argument through blatant stereotypes and generalizations. Accordingly, how can she attest to the change in mental perception once “Other” sex has taken place? Did she question these Jocks after they succeeded in their quest for Otherness?

Would it be plausible for a man to make the case for the exploitation of “Others” as being a way out of the shade of Un-Other?

Are Holt Students seen as Others?

Do you feel Otherish?