Listened to Louise Perry talk with Andrew Sullivan about sexual politics. My takeaways (thread):

1) ppl are surprised by Sullivans’ genuine inability to conceive of normative, generative modes of sexuality. He’s been the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to revealing what “gay” is on ontological level

2) bc he’s basically a steelman. I believe that he wants what is good. To give him some credit, he doesn’t need to explore critiques of sexual liberalism at all. He’s motivated by desire to really believe that one be “free” with sexuality & functionally as good/upright as anyone

3) When he presented “gay marriage” as the same, just different genital configuration, I think he meant it. He wants that to be the case.

4) But he can’t help demonstrating , revealing to the nice centrists that also want to believe, that this is not the case.