tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post7313441664866732695..comments2024-03-18T15:17:26.003-05:00Comments on l'astronave: 1701: The Right to Be AverageFrescahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-46674218620373932272010-10-19T10:59:56.301-05:002010-10-19T10:59:56.301-05:00Di: NIce to meet you!Di: NIce to meet you!Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-23208365373734801922010-10-18T00:11:57.077-05:002010-10-18T00:11:57.077-05:00Hi again. Not from Australia-from frakking Idaho....Hi again. Not from Australia-from frakking Idaho. Blue girl in red state.Dihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16928651202329675355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-38550613748004365072010-10-16T08:59:34.207-05:002010-10-16T08:59:34.207-05:00MARGARET: That guy's argument is so unintellig...MARGARET: That guy's argument is so unintelligent, he can't have been gay! <br /><br />"She seems like a person." <br />That's what I met at the Star Trek con too, more than anywhere else in the USA: <br />not smarmy "tolerance" or "acceptance", but a kind of blankness toward the issues of identity that scribble all over so much of American culture.<br /><br />Possibly that blankness comes more easily to a community that has been brushed with a higher-than-average amount of Spock-like Asperger's? <br />There's a blessing to personalities that see skin color and sexual attraction as incidentals. <br /><br />FARFALLA: Hey, that's cool! In fact, not having met you and your work until yesterday, I'd worried a bit that you might not like how I interpreted your manip as "Kirk and Spock Are a Normal Couple."<br /><br />Here's what I think: <br />I think some people see gay people like "Twilight" sees vampire: as exotic creatures who carry dark, dangerous, and sexy pain.<br />This makes for super-charged fiction, but it is, I agree, fiction.<br /><br />Right, what makes Kirk and Spock extraordinary isn't their gender.Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-66867240333564125422010-10-15T20:22:02.325-05:002010-10-15T20:22:02.325-05:00I am so pleased and happy and over-the-moon that, ...I am so pleased and happy and over-the-moon that, from looking at one silly picture, you managed to understand the philosophy that permeates my entire K/S body of work (and that's around 130 pieces of fanfiction!)<br /><br />In other words, the idea that same-sex love, for those that feel it, is just as normal as the way straight people feel about their own romances. It's not exotic, it's not twisted, etc. This is just who we are. We ARE just as boring as everyone else ;-)<br /><br />Of course, Kirk and Spock aren't boring, but I really don't think their (hypothetical) nonstraightness is the most interesting factor in either their lives or their relationship. There's a huge cultural divide, for one thing, and their career puts them at risk of death on a daily basis.<br /><br />Thank you for 'getting' me :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-10461985198766667332010-10-15T15:55:57.892-05:002010-10-15T15:55:57.892-05:00Brillius photoshop; the Kirk-smirk is so appropria...Brillius photoshop; the Kirk-smirk is so appropriate.<br /><br />I was arguing with someone at the Trek con. They were trying to tell me you can know if someone is homosexual because "it's in their eyes, their essence, everything. The same gene that makes us gay makes us more intelligent." 3 or 4 times, I told him that was absolute bull, etc. To prove his point, he called someone over - a stranger - and asked them if I seemed like a lesbian, (for he was convinced and wouldn't hear my take on it). They shrugged and said flatly,<br />"She seems like a person." <br />I thanked this stranger, who was clearly at the right convention.Marzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05258262409718943594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-29287832329192825132010-10-15T15:00:51.172-05:002010-10-15T15:00:51.172-05:00SPARKER: Thanks.
DI: Hi! Are you the Di from Aust...SPARKER: Thanks.<br /><br />DI: Hi! Are you the Di from Australia? <br />Prohibition... that's kind of a good analogy--something that won't workin the long run.<br /><br />Oh, yes, not being ironic is indeed a nice thing about Star Trek! We can apply irony to it, if we want, but it was not self-consciously ironic.<br /><br />RUDY: Ha! YOU are the kind of straight married person conservatives should fear---I KNOW you're going to expose your children and their little friends and neighbors to French symbolist poetry!Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-63615807705455684682010-10-15T14:18:59.766-05:002010-10-15T14:18:59.766-05:00This post desperately needs to go viral! Love it!This post desperately needs to go viral! Love it!Rudyinparishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13527306418916412817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-20437332979503014552010-10-15T11:33:31.116-05:002010-10-15T11:33:31.116-05:00I ran across your blog when looking for a picture ...I ran across your blog when looking for a picture of Kirk. This is a great picture, and I love what you have to say. Today Gay Rights is in a Prohibition-like phase. I believe the next generation will be more tolerant. And regarding the last blog, surely the lack of irony is one of the things that make both the Beatles and ST so attractive. Both have an earnestness of spirit that is healing to the soul.<br />Keep on Trekkin'.Dihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16928651202329675355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-2063356609562965892010-10-15T10:40:51.874-05:002010-10-15T10:40:51.874-05:00You are very acute.You are very acute.ArtSparkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875996639432864367noreply@blogger.com