tales of the Female Jewish Crossdressing Gentlemanly Spy

[rm]

For a day that can be said to have started with the Evangelical Children's Parade and ended with Neo-Nazis, it was a far more pleasant day than one would expect. That said, the world has been completely weird for a week and the usually chill anti-war tone of Union Square today was disrupted by, among other things, a small group of anti-war neo-nazi dudes arguing with a black guy until they all eventually decided they hated Jews the most and became friends.

I was sitting very close by and writing a letter to Patty (as her second letter to me arrived today!) and whenever they would Mention the Jews they would raise their voices much more loudly and stare at me. They called me a spy. And apparently all Jews are rich, gay and members of the upper class. I had to laugh at myself for having that internal moment of "class and wealth are not the same things, ASSHOLES." But really, that's a petty gripe in the scheme of the rest of it, but I couldn't really let myself even engage the anti-semitism and so forth mentally, lest I attempt discourse with these folks.

Then, and this is where it gets even more absurd, they start ranting about women. Staring, staring at me again. One man is doing all the speaking on this point. From him we learn that there is only ever one good professional female tennis player at a time, so of course they don't deserve equal prize money and that women can't demand equal pay for equal work because they are incapable of doing equal work -- they have niether the minds nor the bodies for it, and even if they did they're all a bunch of whores in sundresses who are not suffering like men in their jackets and ties in the dead of summer anyway.

I wrote to Patty and smirked, because here I had a thousand secrets -- my swords and my dance and my suits, card playing, epistolary habits and the like. I've even shot guns. Certainly, I know more about the gentlemanly arts than any of them, and certainly I damn well know how to behave like one better than any of them from their bigotry to their raised voices with poor grammar to their terrible fashion sense. So while part of me was enraged from the moment I sat down, part of me was trying not to laugh at my new identiy as the Female Jewish Crossdressing Gentlemanly Spy.

People with certitude, sometimes even or especially the ugliest of certitude, fascinate me.

Comments

[delchi.livejournal.com]

I know more about the gentlemanly arts than any of them, and certainly I damn well know how to behave like one better than any of them

Question : Do you have any info concernnig the exchange of weapons as gifts between two gentlemen? Symbolisim? Process, procedure , meaning ?

[greensloven.livejournal.com]

Female Jewish Crossdressing Gentlemanly Spy</>

Wishing I was one myself and mentally half boy, if you are not already, will you marry me Gentlemanly Spy? ^_^ *hugs* I admire you.

[torenheksje.livejournal.com]

FJCGS = rm You know that's how I'm going to think of you from now on. :c)

[hangedwoman.livejournal.com]

Good grief. While I am not suprised by your internal élan in the face of that, I do continue to be damned charmed by it.

[izzerwurst.livejournal.com]

that is severely frustrating.. a good reason to carry a gun at all times, and to use it :)

i didn't know you were jewish. me too

[rm.livejournal.com]

heh.

My mom is Jewish my dad was raised Catholic. I was raised Jewish and vaguely Christian and am nominally pagan, although when peopel start talking about the Jews, especially in a nasty way, man, I am a Jew down to the bone. My father changed religions every two years when I was growing up and has now self-published his own version fo teh Bible, so to say that religion in my family is wacky is a severe understatement.

[izzerwurst.livejournal.com]

I've been a staunch atheist since the age of 11 or thereabouts, but regardless I'm still a jew. There's definitely a heritage aspect to it.. My dad, also, was Catholic (Irish Catholic, to be specific), though a few years ago he did convert. My family is not religious, but jewish all the same..

[rm.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, my mother used to tell me about how children in her town spat on her for being a Jew, even after there was a big flood in teh town and her father, who owened the town grocery store, let people stay in their house because he was on the highest ground. I would cry about kids hating me, but she always made it clear that at least they didn't hate me because I was a Jew and that because we were treated as animals we must never act as animals. All my mothers lessons have not been useful, perhaps, not even that one. But oh, it informs things.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

You and Kit Marlowe (Gay Atheist Spy!) should team up and fight crime.