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...it has that masculine ring. It's for intelligent people who think women are so special they should be kept in the kitchen, it couldn't be gay in any way, it is more in the traditional nazi ethos of coming together in joy and dressing up in a way that certainly wasn't camp.
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[SA Orgy scene from Visconti's
The Damned, 1969]
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How i fill out forms that ask an inane and idiotic question about sh_t that shouldn't matter:
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In 1968, I was beginning my senior year in high school. I was enrolled in the Jr. ROTC unit of my school and one day a large group of the cadets was comparing notes about college applications. At that time, colleges and other institutions and government agencies had just begun to include the requirement to state one's ethnicity of apllication and other forms. A very large percentage of the cadets found the requirement to be offensive. Some cadets who were of mixed ethnicity were uncertain as to what to write down and some, whose ethnicity was not listed balked at being lumped under the "other" category. (By the way, the school had a very mixed ethnic population and this was reflected in the makeup of the unit.) The discussion got a bit loud and the Army sargeant in charge of our unit, Master Sgt. Carter, came out of his office to see what we were all talking about. He had never seen a college application form with an ethnicty identification requirement before and was very disdainful of the practice. Sgt. Carter had served in W. Germany and had married a German woman and had recently become the proud father of a son. I should mention Sgt. Carter is African-American and his wife is a very blonde, very caucasian German. They are both very tall, dignified, very attractive people; someone once said they looked like a living special edition pair of Barbie and Ken dolls. We asked him how he would tell his son toi fill out a future form requiring a statement of ethnicity. He replied "I would tell him to write down 'human being' and nothing more." All of us cadets had our respect for Sgt. Carter greatly enhanced that day.
By the way, the school I graduated from is in San Francisco, the city of my birth and childhood. I remember some one once saying "In San Francisco, you are first an American, secondly a San Franciscan, and lastly anyone or anything else you want to be."...