Is it humanly possible to be any more gay than Mamdani?
His gayness is the only endearing thing about him, which is why I bring it up.
20 responses to “Looking for the Positive”
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Right? People are having vapors over this speech on X but it screams “gay momma’s boy” and is simply funny.
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Clarissa, I don’t know if you noticed the source appended in Universal Child Care, looks like the media just ignores positive results.
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Has anybody commented on the extraordinary disparity of talent between gay men and gay women? There’s an inordinate number of talented gay men but nothing like it among lesbians. It’s such an interesting phenomenon.
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Really? I sincerely don’t know any.
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LOL, Kid, it would be before your time, but some early second-wave college girls, mostly in the humanities, did actually experiment with lesbianism as a means of undermining the villainous patriarchy ;-D
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Right, but what did they achieve? Where are lesbian Garcia Lorca, Juan Goytisolo, Michel Foucault, Rafael Chirbes, Reinaldo Arenas, José Lezama Lima, Virgilio Piñera, and I can go on forever. And yes, my frame of reference is Latin but I’ll accept a lineup of brilliant lesbians from any region if anybody has gotten them.
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LOL, Kid, I am definitely not the “pro from Dover” on lesbianism, just observed what happened in late 60’s/early 70’s university. You have to remember that at the time homosexuality was still considered a mental illness/disorder — and some of the females certainly appeared, well, more than a little disturbed ;-D
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Off the top of my head, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and Willa Cather were all in relationships with women. Patricia Highsmith. Then of course there’s the OG, Sappho from the island of Lesbos, from whom we get the words “sapphic” and “lesbian.” That’s to say nothing of the “lesbian canon” (Well of Loneliness, Rubyfruit Jungle, etc.) You may or may not like these writers (lesbians are disproportionately represented among modernists, and I know you hate Willa Cather), but the ones I’ve read I can concede have at least some talent. There are of course many writers of total horseshit just as there are among gay men; you’ll note I did not list Audre Lorde here (I’ve never read her poetry but her essays are dreadful woke garbage.)
There’s also a lot of musicians who come to mind from the early blues scene, but I know you’re not into music. There are other figures who come to mind but who I hesitate to project modern sexuality labels they wouldn’t necessarily identify with on, especially pre 20th century. A particular one who’s coming to mind is another writer I know you hate; I’m beginning to suspect that you and lesbians are at psychological odds when it comes to taste in books.
And of course, if we look to modern times, there’s the incredibly talented Roxane Gay! (Don’t worry, this is a joke.)
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He’s a piece of shit but I’m glad he did this. The IHRA definition of antisemitism was insane.
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That should absolutely be abolished everywhere on constitutional grounds.
So should subsidies to.”minority-owned” businesses. All of this unconstitutional garbage should be shut down.
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That’s exactly the news item I had in mind when I posted. It’s completely ludicrous.
I could understand subsidizing foundational African Americans and Native Americans. But nobody else. It’s a travesty.
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