The rules of the game ? Well, did the purchase and sale of Africans, very well-established as the rule of the game, give the lie to the pretense of dignity and nobility and enlightenment that was pretended to by the dominant white clans? How about the discrimination and harassment of the Clans by the redcoats? Well within the rules of the game, no?

Dominance always brings with it a cheap set of rules established by agreement supported by force, as Matthew Shephard found to his dismay. It is much, much harder to evolve rules cleaving to justice and equality, because one has to overcome the crusty inertia and blackguard hostilities of individuated, small-minded people more interested in the status quo.

Perhaps you mean that heterosexuality is the "rule of the game"? Do you consider human homosexuality to be a recent development? The earliest civilizations we know about were rife with it.

Or do you believe that dominating the culture is a form of progress on the part of heterosexuals, a step into a better civilization, which the odball minority will just have to suffer with, because it is just naturally better? God-given, even?

Say, how DO you justify this notion of "the rules of the game", anyway? I am not quite getting it.


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