Wow, preach it brother Jamie! I feel lashed and remorseful and I'm not even trans.... (just kidding!) Every point you make is so full of common sense and .... rightness ... the past (and now) present that you helped forge and carried so many of us into was vivid, at times traumatic, and worthy of thought and study and reflection -- and it was not that far back! This present, annoying, self-regarding generation should be celebrating - not berating- you ... Great podcast - keep going!
THANKS DEX!! Just a little gay Mama bitch slappin with love. I appreciate you. I do truly believe that the best way to identify and to communicate to others who we are is by BEING that in a meaningful way in the world. So i'm gonna bring my radical authenticity, and try to make a small contribution. Stay tuned!
James: I’m only 12 minutes in, and as usual I have all sorts of reactions bubbling. The overriding one is that you put it so well, you could just turn out the lights now and go put your feet up.
I know you’ll have a lot more to say about all this, but given this mighty strong first podcast, I’m worried that after a while you’ll have made your point, and then we won’t get any more of your eloquence OR your feistiness. And that would be a drag-- and not the good kind of drag.
I hope that if that day ever shows up, you’ll keep writing about whatever else interests you, because i consider your writing a refreshing tonic.
The implication in your words, for me (please forgive if I’m misreading you), is that the idea you fought for was “we want to be accepted as part of a big community,” whether that meant Americans or people generally.
Whereas the new message seems to be more “hey, we ARE the community, and you should fuck off, transphobe!”
Real equality, to me, isn’t a thing you angrily impose on the assholes that don’t want you around them. It’s a gradual, maybe even bumpy, integration of both parties into a new shared space. It’s a give and take. I don’t want to welcome people into my space, I want us both to see it as OUR space.
I’ve talked to friends about how it appears that our kids are way more tolerant than we were, and my 18 year old son tells me that the casual homophobia I saw (and, too often, participated in) growing up wasn’t something he saw in his school experience.
So there’s anecdotal evidence suggesting that the aggressive woke thing could eventually recede a bit, and we could all enjoy the good things that younger generations have brought to our culture. They couldn’t have done it without you, and I think it’s hard for young people to have a perspective about history that gives any old person credit for anything.
Also-- it’s amazing that “Morocco” is almost a century old. I love Marlene in various later films like “Touch of Evil,” “Destry Rides Again,” “Rancho Notorious,” etc., but those Von Sternberg films are like holy writ for me. Especially “Shanghai Express,” “Scarlet Empress” and “The Devil Is A Woman.”
Ah, you're a fan of Marlene's collaborations with her svengali, Von Sternberg! He certainly taught her everything she knew about lighting and mystique. I'm gratified that you enjoy my writing. I'm able to be more artful writing than I am speaking off the cuff as in this podcast. We DO live in a tolerant society...but the activism, and its now entrenched systems of control within every institution, are about disruption and division which is rolling back the clock--anti-LGBT sentiment is on the rise--but worse, the radical trans activists are tearing apart the community. There could be a split very soon. The alphabet soup acronym may lose an L, a G, and a B. It's not uplifting, but it is brilliant: I recommend listening to Andrew Doyle and Peter Boghossian on this: https://youtu.be/FAgAVy_awh0
I like the bifurcated approach with the artful writing and the more obvious anger on the podcast. And I’m glad you’re getting into the fracture in the community because I’m only vaguely aware of it (just from reading between the lines) but I’m not sure it’s common knowledge and it ought to be talked about publicly by people who know what’s going on.
I think I’ve subscribed to Andrew and Peter without actually checking them out yet-- I’ll dig into their stuff tomorrow, thanks!
Yes! As an out and engaged member of the "LGBT community" since age 14 in 1980, I am bewildered at the entitlement and dismissiveness of the current "queer community" who seem to have zero clues about how hard won our rights were. Be The Change You Want to See!!
Keep it up, Jamie!!!
You bet I will!!:
Wow, preach it brother Jamie! I feel lashed and remorseful and I'm not even trans.... (just kidding!) Every point you make is so full of common sense and .... rightness ... the past (and now) present that you helped forge and carried so many of us into was vivid, at times traumatic, and worthy of thought and study and reflection -- and it was not that far back! This present, annoying, self-regarding generation should be celebrating - not berating- you ... Great podcast - keep going!
THANKS DEX!! Just a little gay Mama bitch slappin with love. I appreciate you. I do truly believe that the best way to identify and to communicate to others who we are is by BEING that in a meaningful way in the world. So i'm gonna bring my radical authenticity, and try to make a small contribution. Stay tuned!
LOVE!
You are EN FUEGO and I am here for it.
James: I’m only 12 minutes in, and as usual I have all sorts of reactions bubbling. The overriding one is that you put it so well, you could just turn out the lights now and go put your feet up.
I know you’ll have a lot more to say about all this, but given this mighty strong first podcast, I’m worried that after a while you’ll have made your point, and then we won’t get any more of your eloquence OR your feistiness. And that would be a drag-- and not the good kind of drag.
I hope that if that day ever shows up, you’ll keep writing about whatever else interests you, because i consider your writing a refreshing tonic.
The implication in your words, for me (please forgive if I’m misreading you), is that the idea you fought for was “we want to be accepted as part of a big community,” whether that meant Americans or people generally.
Whereas the new message seems to be more “hey, we ARE the community, and you should fuck off, transphobe!”
Real equality, to me, isn’t a thing you angrily impose on the assholes that don’t want you around them. It’s a gradual, maybe even bumpy, integration of both parties into a new shared space. It’s a give and take. I don’t want to welcome people into my space, I want us both to see it as OUR space.
I’ve talked to friends about how it appears that our kids are way more tolerant than we were, and my 18 year old son tells me that the casual homophobia I saw (and, too often, participated in) growing up wasn’t something he saw in his school experience.
So there’s anecdotal evidence suggesting that the aggressive woke thing could eventually recede a bit, and we could all enjoy the good things that younger generations have brought to our culture. They couldn’t have done it without you, and I think it’s hard for young people to have a perspective about history that gives any old person credit for anything.
Also-- it’s amazing that “Morocco” is almost a century old. I love Marlene in various later films like “Touch of Evil,” “Destry Rides Again,” “Rancho Notorious,” etc., but those Von Sternberg films are like holy writ for me. Especially “Shanghai Express,” “Scarlet Empress” and “The Devil Is A Woman.”
Ah, you're a fan of Marlene's collaborations with her svengali, Von Sternberg! He certainly taught her everything she knew about lighting and mystique. I'm gratified that you enjoy my writing. I'm able to be more artful writing than I am speaking off the cuff as in this podcast. We DO live in a tolerant society...but the activism, and its now entrenched systems of control within every institution, are about disruption and division which is rolling back the clock--anti-LGBT sentiment is on the rise--but worse, the radical trans activists are tearing apart the community. There could be a split very soon. The alphabet soup acronym may lose an L, a G, and a B. It's not uplifting, but it is brilliant: I recommend listening to Andrew Doyle and Peter Boghossian on this: https://youtu.be/FAgAVy_awh0
I like the bifurcated approach with the artful writing and the more obvious anger on the podcast. And I’m glad you’re getting into the fracture in the community because I’m only vaguely aware of it (just from reading between the lines) but I’m not sure it’s common knowledge and it ought to be talked about publicly by people who know what’s going on.
I think I’ve subscribed to Andrew and Peter without actually checking them out yet-- I’ll dig into their stuff tomorrow, thanks!
Great podcast debut!
Thanks Scott! I was feeling pretty feisty. :-)
Yes! As an out and engaged member of the "LGBT community" since age 14 in 1980, I am bewildered at the entitlement and dismissiveness of the current "queer community" who seem to have zero clues about how hard won our rights were. Be The Change You Want to See!!
Amen, Zander!