Life & Wisdom Quote by Andrew Cohen

Cohen’s line comes with the bracing impatience of someone watching identity harden into performance. The provocation isn’t anti-sexuality; it’s anti-spotlight. By calling the inflation of sexual preferences “narcissism,” he’s not merely insulting vanity, he’s diagnosing a cultural habit: the tendency to treat desire as a résumé line, a moral credential, or a personal brand that must be constantly narrated and validated.

The phrasing “far too big a deal” does quiet work. It implies a mismatch between the private scale of sex and the public scale of discourse, where preferences can become political capital, social leverage, or a shield against critique. Cohen’s “just another form” is the tell: he’s slotting sexuality into a broader critique of self-absorption, suggesting that even liberation can curdle into self-regard when it becomes incessantly self-referential.

The subtext also carries a warning about conversation-stoppers. When sexual identity is positioned as the primary lens through which a person is understood, it can flatten everything else - ethics, ideas, contradictions, responsibilities - into a single explanatory key. That’s the “obstacle”: not to acceptance, but to intimacy, coalition, and honest debate. In a media ecosystem that rewards confession and crisp labels, Cohen is pushing back against the market logic of selfhood, where being legible matters more than being complex.