thoughts on English
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ltgmarsIs there a single word designated for the feeling you have when you have to go to the bathroom?
Like, a single word. There's a single word for most everything else that humans find relevant and/or necessary: hungry, thirsty, sleepy, horny. But there isn't one for having to go to the bathroom in general (without getting into specifics like constipation, etc.). What are our thoughts on this? Should this be rectified? What authorities can we contact to right this wrong? Who's the modern-day Shakespeare who can bring a new word for this purpose into our language? What should the word be?
Whatever it is, I'm that right now. D:
Like, a single word. There's a single word for most everything else that humans find relevant and/or necessary: hungry, thirsty, sleepy, horny. But there isn't one for having to go to the bathroom in general (without getting into specifics like constipation, etc.). What are our thoughts on this? Should this be rectified? What authorities can we contact to right this wrong? Who's the modern-day Shakespeare who can bring a new word for this purpose into our language? What should the word be?
Whatever it is, I'm that right now. D:
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Date: 2009-02-19 07:32 (UTC)So long as Target keeps allowing me to live by their dumpsters, I'm cool.I do not know these bishounen you speak of. D: Seriously, it's amazing that you wrote about the perceived masculinity issue - the number one thing I hear from American women concerning Asian men is, "They're too feminine, they look feminine" whilst the (Korean especially) culture boasts its overarching masculinity. I was reading some Japanese newspaper a few weeks ago and one of the opinion columnists lamented the 'infiltration of the feminine' in the fashion of young men. He openly wondered, "Is it the fashion that makes our young men like girls, or have our young men become so passive that fashion must follow to suit them?" So I think your planned contribution to this area is timely, and I am excited to hear that you're interested in the influence of crossdressing, and crossdressers on the larger culture. I know many Japanese people, like Americans, don't know their own history, so to see a pervading effect... interesting to say the least.
I'm interested in the evolution of men-with-men in Chinese and Japanese history - how the personal relationships of these bonds has evolved. I am looking at the Buddhist temples, and the Imperial court, and the theatre, and the military for evidence of how same-sex relations developed, to what extent they were expressed and accepted, and how it relates to the (essential) idea that orientation has been historically recognized. (Run-on sentence mania, basically.) I'd like to stay away from deviations from the masculine norm as much as possible and focus on relationships between everymen in those male spheres.
You should know Focault haunts me in my dreams, taunting my ideas, calling me an apologist. D: Only on college campuses do these theories remain relevant, but. You're absolutely right; one of my favourite books from last year was "Sexual Fluidity", wherein the author (Lisa Diamond) basically argued that female sexuality is both essential and constructed. I recommend it. <3
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Date: 2009-02-24 20:19 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-24 20:55 (UTC)Mutual friending because I like you.
A lot.
D:
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Date: 2009-02-24 21:02 (UTC)