Social Astronomer Stryker

The well known intellect and Transperson Dr. Susan Stryker has married her deft prose with cosmological metaphors, in her rebuttal of the "homocentric" arguments of gay political consultant and blogger Aravosis and those who move ENDA forward without the Trans community.

Says social astronomer Stryker on Salon:
"Aravosis isn't questioning the place of the T in the GLBT batting order; he's just concerned with properly marking the distinction between "enough like me" and "too different from me" to merit inclusion in the categories with which he identifies. His position is a bit like those kerfuffled astronomers not too long ago, scratching their noggins over how to define Pluto's place in the conceptual scheme of the solar system. Sure, we've been calling it a planet for a good number of years because it's round and orbits the sun just like our Earth, but now it appears that if we keep doing so we'll have to let a bunch of the bigger asteroids into the planet category, as well as some other weird faraway stuff we only recently learned about, which stretches the definition of "planet" into a name for things we don't really think of as being much like good ol' Earth, so let's just demote Pluto instead. In Aravosis' homocentric cosmology, men may not be from Mars, nor women from Venus, but transgender people are definitely from Pluto."

The Stonewall Citizen view is that what Susan is really scoping out is the long hidden caste, and economic class system that co-exists with gender identity and sexuality within the GLBT community. This is the true Dark Matter of the queer cosmos.
Well done, Susan. Please keep speaking truth, and may The Force be with you. By the way, Stonewall Citizen loves the word "kerfluffled." It sounds very tasty. We know we want to order up a side of the Susan Stryker Special Kerfluffle at the Bagdad Cafe next time we are in the Castro.