Helen Boyd Kramer's journal on gender and stuff
You really wonder why, as Americans, we get so hung up on sex, and on sex work. You’d think in an uber-capitalist economy, monetizing fucking would be a good thing, but we get hung up anyway.
I’ve been very pleased while reading Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys
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A Baptist Church is burning Bibles.
Church leaders deem Good News for Modern Man, the Evidence Bible, the New International Version Bible, the Green Bible and the Message Bible, as well as at least seven other versions of the Bible as “Satan’s Bibles,” according to the website. Attendees will also set fire to “Satan’s popular books” such as the work of “heretics” including the Pope, Mother Teresa, Billy Graham and Rick Warren.
Not to knock the whole of NC as a result, local David Lynch (not that one) said: “it’s a little disconcerting how close this is to my home. They are burning so much stuff I’ve dubbed them the hypocritical Christian Taliban,” Lynch said in a phone interview with Raw Story. “Just the scope of all the information they want to destroy is pretty disturbing.”
Despite the lack of context or explanation, SF Gate has a nice series of (mostly) rural photos of people who are crossdressed. It’s unclear whether it’s Halloween or some other event, or even if they were taken anywhere near each other, but still, it’s an interesting if not atypical collection of 52 photos. The one pictured is my favorite, as it reminds me of quite a few families I’ve met over the time I’ve been doing research on crossdressing. My guess is that none of these people are crossdressers per se, but of course all I’ve got to go on is the images themselves.
He says women who are upset by models being too thin are just fat ladies who sit on the couch and eat chips. I mean, honestly.
There’s a nice blog post about it by Susan Wagner, who in turn quotes Sherrie Gulmahamad:
This raises a rather dicey question. Do the gay men controlling the fashion world also control the messaging about *our* bodies – and is it wrong, considering gay men aren’t really interested in our bodies in the first place?
Which reiterates an observation that I’ve made more than once: that when I experience misogyny spoken by a gay man, it’s often far more offensive than the misogyny I hear from straight men. Not always by much, but straight guys, usually, mostly, kinda, like to have sex with our bodies, whether or not they consider us human and people & all that.
But I shudder to think about all of us modeling our looks after Mr. Lagerfeld, who looks like death warmed over – and warmed by those hot lamps they use to keep the fries hot at McDonald’s. Eeek.
I think the Franz Ferdinand is one of the sexiest songs I’ve heard lately – you know you know you know you’re so sweetly is delivered with a lovely rasp – and Cherry Lips is the classic straight grrl appreciation of MTF fabulousness. Enjoy.
Since many of you have asked when exactly it starts snowing here in Appleton, here’s your answer: today.
Agreed:
And despite the fact that Obama’s position is a 180 degree turn from the previous administration, which declared open war with the FMA, he is greeted with catcalls of “what have you done for me lately” or “just words,” feeding the right-wing narrative that Obama is all talk. Well played.
John Cole, just so you know, plenty of us in the LGBT community agree with you.
Reading the tweets posted at #NEM gives me the sense that this is one of the good marches, at the very least re-charging the sense of community for the whole of the LGB and T. I hope so, anyway. I would have loved to hear Julian Bond, at the very least. If you don’t know who he is or what he does, check out this Queery post from back in March.
And Happy National Coming Out Day! Who’d you come out to? I’m not sure if I have anyone left to come out to.