There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that the appeal of homosexuality lies in its complexity and allure compared to heterosexuality.
Michel Foucault's quote implies that homosexuality possesses a unique intrigue that attracts many heterosexual individuals, indicating a perceived superiority or richness of experience in being homosexual. This observation raises questions about societal norms and invites a deeper contemplation of sexual identity, suggesting that the desire to explore or change one's sexual orientation might stem from a dissatisfaction or curiosity about the conventional heterosexual experience.
In practice
This quote can be used during discussions about sexual orientation in educational settings to promote understanding.
A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation [...] He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribed in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection.
Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your state, if you are wise and civilized men; an instant suffices to disturb and annihilate that supposed wisdom of which you are so proud; an unexpected event, a sharp and sudden emotion of the soul will abruptly change the most reasonable and intelligent man into a raving idiot.
But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know what will be the end.
You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.
Total peace after death, becoming someone else, is the best hope I've got.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
For after the Battle comes quiet.
Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.
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