Born That Way blog on CNN.com

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So of course the topic of ' born that way' = essentialism comes up. Sigh. There's a reason essentialism touches people, folks. I'm just sayin'. You can be the most brilliant queer theorist in the world, but we feel and not think love, and that love is the engine of our sexual difference. IMHO, this is one of the reasons theory can only take us so far. This is coming from someone who was studied queer theory and has a use for it at times. If we're going to interrogate our essentialist bent, we MUST also interrogate our constructivist bent.  So, that being the case, we wonder: Even post QT, essentialism hasn't lost its hold in the public imaginarium (Lady Gaga, this Born This Way blog, ad infinitum). So what's behind all this? That's a far more interesting question, I think, than is critiques on folks for being essentialist.