Claims about the dourness of lesbianism have been overstated.
– Professor Terry Castle
Source: New York Times Magazine, Jan 18, 2010
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no man would say dourness and lesbianism in the same sentence.. it would be blasphemous!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Why? Because of Rosie? Because of Ellen?
Dunno about Rosie, but Ellen(with Sharon Stone) looked ok in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_These_Walls_Could_Talk_2#Awards_and_nominations
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Both Sharon Stone and Ellen DeGeneres are decent performers….would be interesting to see the third segment of this TV movie.
Well, to an extent lesbians may suffer from anxiety caused by the need to hide their sexual orientation from family and friends, and also from being in constant fear of discrimination.
The above might well cause dourness. Can’t understand why it should be “blasphemous” to associate the two terms.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. You write: to an extent lesbians may suffer from anxiety caused by the need to hide their sexual orientation from family and friends, and also from being in constant fear of discrimination.
A lot of them are likely happy…in any case, discrimination against lesbians or gays in the U.S. is not as bad as perhaps in Mera Bharat Mahaan or in the Mullah countries.
2. We still haven’t understood why it should be anyone’s problem if a woman goes down on a man or a woman. 😉
Most human beings get disturbed at the sight of others who are not mirror images of themselves.
@Ravi – reg. “blasphemous”: Terry wasn’t serious and I wasn’t serious either.. what I meant to say was that No (again there will be many that will disagree with me, but I don’t care 😉 ) man would think that woman-on-woman action is dour.. even if it is Ellen-on-Sharon.
@SI – I liked segment 2 the best.. Michelle Williams!!!!!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Vaguely remember seeing Michelle in that gay-fest Brokeback Mountain.
Jump a Lahiri, You’re point is taken.
Ravi?? First time I use a new nickname and you address me by a totally different name!
Maybe I should go back to using felecofcornwall. Now, I’m sure you wouldn’t mix that up with Ravi 😀
😆 sorry, Hari.. some four letter world ending with “I”..
watching Ind-Bangladesh test match on espn360.com.. interestingly the video techies are mostly Tamil.. bungling, talking in Tamil, it’s all funny…
Test Cricket is still interesting.. probably because India is #1.
As for me, I’m reduced to getting the score off the internet from time to time. 🙁
The best I can do is to catch the highlights when I get back home in the evenings.
Test cricket is interesting alright. What with the increasing scoring rates these days, it is almost on a par with ODIs in terms of pace. Also, it has its own high place among all the other formats of the game. T20s, if anything, might pose a threat to ODIs. Test cricket as I see it is quite safe.
Don’t know if SI played/watched/watches cricket. Going by the number of references to the game in this blog, probably not!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: Don’t know if SI played/watched/watches cricket. Going by the number of references to the game in this blog, probably not!
SI has played various games in a long life. But in the tail innings, the games are usually those of the head. 😉