Helen Boyd Kramer's journal on gender and stuff
It’s about damn time.
BP Says New Cap Has Stopped Oil Leak
The company says oil has stopped gushing after all valves were shut on a new cap over the broken Gulf well in an experiment to stop the spill. Engineers are now monitoring the pressure to see if the busted well holds.
More at NPR.org:
http://n.npr.org/NPRI/jN116755398_519735_519734_Z.htm
A cool bunch of feminist links on global feminisms picked up a post of mine, and when I went to check it out, I was impressed by how international in scope it was, & how trans friendly. Cool beans.
Congratulations to Argentina for being the first Latin American country to legalize same sex marriage.
In Spain it’s been legal for a while.
Which is my way of saying: not all primarily Catholic countries, & not all Catholics, are bigots.
On this, our 9th wedding anniversary, I’d love to hear from couples about a question I’ve been pondering: what do you do when you have an interest/love/hobby that your partner doens’t share?
I love live music, for instance, & public gatherings, & Rachel likes neither. She likes football & Rush. I’ve generally found people to go see music with, & to attend parades, pride events, &c., although I’m starting from scratch with making friends out here in Wisconsin, which is why it’s come up.
So do you:
As maybe everyone knows at this point, I feel “dragged along” – even if I haven’t gone anywhere – when she watches football at home. In the small apartments we’ve lived in, I don’t have much escape unless I want to go somewhere else for a few hours.
So I’m curious, & waiting to hear what kinds of solutions all you creative, coupled types have come up with.
(Apparently it was only the daughter of a preacher man who could ever reach her, by the way.)
Skip the Makeup has a good blog post up about Pat Dye, the 31 year old who has allegedly pursued and seduced a 15 year old girl.
That’s the huge problem: not the gender, but the age gap. Impersonating a minor to have sex with a minor is criminal.
Being trans or clocked for the gender you’re not is not a crime, or immoral, or anything like that.
So maybe let’s keep the two things entirely separate, okay?
Prof. Joy Ladin on what it means to be transgender and Jewish:
Fair Wisconsin and Human Rights League have put together a list of endorsement’s for this year’s elections.
From 1925:
Here are the lyrics:
Masculine Women! Feminine Men!
Hey! Hey! Women are going mad, today!
Hey! Hey! Fellers are just as bad, I’ll say!
Go anywhere, just stand and stare,
You’ll say they’re bugs when you look at the clothes they wear.
Masculine Women, Feminine Men,
which is the rooster which is the hen?
It’s hard to tell ‘em apart today. And SAY…
Sister is busy learning to shave,
Brother just loves his permanent wave,
It’s hard to tell ‘em apart today. HEY! HEY!
Girls were girls and boys were boys when I was a tot,
Now we don’t know who is who or even what’s what.
Knickers and trousers, baggy and wide,
Nobody knows who’s walking inside.
Those Masculine Women, Feminine Men
Masculine Women. Feminine Men
which is the rooster which is the hen?
It’s hard to tell ‘em apart today. And SAY…
Auntie is smoking, rolling her own,
Uncle is always buying cologne.
It’s hard to tell ‘em apart today. HEY! HEY!
You go and give your girl a kiss in the hall,
But instead you find you’re kissing her brother Paul.
Mama’s got a sweater up to her chin,
Papa’s got a girtle holding him in.
Those Masculine Women, Feminine Men
Stop, Look, Listen and you’ll agree… with me.
Things are not what they used to be… you’ll see.
You say hello to Uncle Joe,
Then look again and you find it’s your Aunti Flo.
Masculine Women, Feminine Men
which is the rooster which is the hen?
It’s hard to tell ‘em apart today. And SAY…
Wifey is playing billiards and pool,
Hubby is dressing kiddies for school.
It’s hard to tell ‘em apart today. HEY! HEY!
Ever since the Prince of Wales in dresses was seen,
What does he intend to be the King or the Queen?
Grandmother buys those tailor-made clothes,
Grandfather tries to smell like a rose.
Those Masculine Women, Feminine Men
I got the lyrics from Box Turtle Bulletin, where there’s more about the song, too.
Damfinos: there’s a new cut of Steamboat Bill Jr.
Also, there’s a new DVD of all the Educational Pictures pictures
For those of you who don’t know, Houdini is credited with naming Buster. He was visiting with the Keatons, who were a vaudeville troupe, when infant/toddler Buster fell down a flight of stairs and landed with that stone face. Houdini, looking on, said “that’s quite a buster,” & thus, Buster Keaton was born. Houdini was born here in Appleton, and the Keatons used to summer in Muskegon, Michigan, where the annual Damfino conference takes place. So apparently I’ve come to some version of the right part of the world.
