Re: The Stewart/Colbert rally. Some news sources refuseed to cover it. Those that do are treating it as a political event. Some are viewing it as a call to moderates to speak up; others are attacking it on partizen political grounds. It's being treated much as any other political rally on the mall, honestly.
Re: "Tolerance" in schools. I went to an integrating historically boys's prep school. I know we've talked about some of the fucked up gender and racial currents at my school, which I'm guessing was a lot more like yours, than say, Catholic schools or akibas, which were the other common sorts of private schools where I was.
LGBT wise, the lesbianism was completely underground, but going on quietly. fopr the boys, it was pretty much a kink factory. They were big on sexual power games. This is why I knew what golden showers were before I had a word for them. At my school, it was better for a boy to be bi or straight, but being exclusively homosexual only kept you out of the top clique, which also barred people for not being WASP old money. You'd still be socially acceptable, just generally and it wasn't a big deal to be out as gay or bi. One of the most liked guys in my grade was known for quips about being bi. (He was the only exception to the WASP rule, as his parents were famous European neuro surgeons and his grandparents owned a chateau. either that or the french blood trumped the Italian. It's hard to tell, but he was the only Italian or Sicilian boy liked by the top clique. It5 likely also helped that most of the high school wanted to be and/or fuck him. *ahem*). There was harassment of the guys who were exclusively bottoms, which felt more like gender stereotype based harassment to me, watching it, than something specifically anti-gay, especially given that the exclusive tops didn't have to deal with that.
I suspect my school was more like British boy's public schools, as it was all boys nearly 200 years, and a lot of the hazing patterns and traditions were 100+ year old homo social hierarchy building/reinforcing things. I'm guessing that all that time as a homo-social environment made homosexuality more acceptable as they'd been using sexual dominance as a part of that pattern for so long. It's lot harder to gay bash with authority, if everyone knows you take blow jobs from guys as a sort of tribute for your popularity.
I wonder what Margaret Meade would have made of us.
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Date: 2010-11-01 02:57 am (UTC)Re: "Tolerance" in schools. I went to an integrating historically boys's prep school. I know we've talked about some of the fucked up gender and racial currents at my school, which I'm guessing was a lot more like yours, than say, Catholic schools or akibas, which were the other common sorts of private schools where I was.
LGBT wise, the lesbianism was completely underground, but going on quietly. fopr the boys, it was pretty much a kink factory. They were big on sexual power games. This is why I knew what golden showers were before I had a word for them. At my school, it was better for a boy to be bi or straight, but being exclusively homosexual only kept you out of the top clique, which also barred people for not being WASP old money. You'd still be socially acceptable, just generally and it wasn't a big deal to be out as gay or bi. One of the most liked guys in my grade was known for quips about being bi. (He was the only exception to the WASP rule, as his parents were famous European neuro surgeons and his grandparents owned a chateau. either that or the french blood trumped the Italian. It's hard to tell, but he was the only Italian or Sicilian boy liked by the top clique. It5 likely also helped that most of the high school wanted to be and/or fuck him. *ahem*). There was harassment of the guys who were exclusively bottoms, which felt more like gender stereotype based harassment to me, watching it, than something specifically anti-gay, especially given that the exclusive tops didn't have to deal with that.
I suspect my school was more like British boy's public schools, as it was all boys nearly 200 years, and a lot of the hazing patterns and traditions were 100+ year old homo social hierarchy building/reinforcing things. I'm guessing that all that time as a homo-social environment made homosexuality more acceptable as they'd been using sexual dominance as a part of that pattern for so long. It's lot harder to gay bash with authority, if everyone knows you take blow jobs from guys as a sort of tribute for your popularity.
I wonder what Margaret Meade would have made of us.