Since Finn went to the groomer

[conuly]

his sweater has gone from "a bit loose" to "much too large!"

Whoops.

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The Early 20th-Century ID Cards That Kept Trans People Safe From Harassment (I've never heard of such a thing. In pre-war Germany?)

Did the First Americans Arrive Via A Kelp Highway?

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1975-1988 color pictures of NYC and Chicago (5th picture down, the barber shop? Check the sign for the Islamic Cultural Center. Unless I am completely lost, that barber shop is within a few blocks of what is now the new WTC. Remember all the racist hullabaloo just a few years ago? Fuck the bigots.)

The Bamboo Flutes of Japan’s ‘Monks of Emptiness’

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The Russian Spies Who Fooled Seattle

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Comments

[selenak]

Re: your first link, I knew about Magnus Hirschfeld's pioneer work in general, but not in the trans one. One of the frustrating things about post-WWW II German law is that they simply kept the legal changes the Nazis made re: male homosexuality, their addendum in the famous paragraph 175, so until the early 1970s, when this changed again, post war German law for gay people was worse, not better, than pre-Nazi German law.

[conuly]

Ugh! Whose bright idea was that? The same person who left the same people in charge of the old concentration camps while they sorted out the DPs, I bet.

[thewayne]

We have to adjust our poodle's collars whenever they get groomed or they could, and have, slip right out of them.

[nodrog]

I've schooled myself to ignore your political links.  People are allowed to have their own opinions - even those who disagree with that very idea and strive diligently to abolish it.

For the Greater Good, you understand.



        The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends
        most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against
        scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression
        must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

        H. L. Mencken

[conuly]

Are you trying to imply that I think you shouldn't have your own opinions?

[nodrog]

        Commander Lock:  Dammit, Morpheus.  Not everyone believes what you believe.

        Morpheus:  My beliefs do not require them to.

        - Matrix Reloaded


Not a bit of it.  I know the signs, where someone holds their blog as a stainless garden of ideological purity - i e  a “safe space” where any disagreement is grounds for immediate banning.  (On LiveJournal I've seen entire communities arranged thus.  Creepy.  One banned so many people for thoughtcrime they ran out of ‘banned’ slots and like a cloud shadow passing across a field, early cases started getting automatically unbanned!)

No, I think you're like me:  I do not require my friends to parrot my views.  They are welcome to have and to express their own.

But if you think the people whom you link to share this enlightened view, I'm afraid you deceive yourself, as “this daughter of the left, an ex-communist and onetime feminist icon” points out rather scathingly.

[conuly]

So I do confess myself baffled - why did you trouble to inform me that you ignore my political links?

But if you think the people whom you link to share this enlightened view, I'm afraid you deceive yourself, as “this daughter of the left, an ex-communist and onetime feminist icon” points out rather scathingly.

Yo, if Mother Jones or The Atlantic wanted to thoroughly wipe out the opposition, the least they could do is put in some comment moderation. I'm not opposed to people having their own opinions, but I do think that if they're going to share those opinions they should do better than "Fucking libtards!" ad nauseum.

Re: Baffled

[nodrog]

why did you trouble to inform me that you ignore my political links?

Because I was feeling peevish and wanted to grumble.  The collectivist Left make me tired.

So, I've had my grumble, and that's all I wanted!  Happy Monday.

[wpadmirer]

The article about Germany and transvestites is fascinating!

[conuly]

I KNOW!

[siderea]

The Early 20th-Century ID Cards That Kept Trans People Safe From Harassment (I've never heard of such a thing. In pre-war Germany?)

That is the most delightfully German thing ever: it's the logic of, "We will make paperwork for it, then it will be okay."

And it was! It's a culture which deeply believed in order and respect for authority. If some low level government flunky started hassling you, flashing them an Official Piece of Paper Saying It Was Legal would likely make them back off, because, oh, official permission, can't go against whatever authority issued this, that would be antisocial.

Try that in some parts of the US, and a local cop would be like, "What, you get that from some pencil-necked geek in Washington? Heh, boys, this freak thinks we do Federalism in this state."

[conuly]

Of course, all that respect for authority took a dark and rather anti-LGBT turn later on....