"butches are deeply, if not fatally, attracted to the feminine"

[starfrosting]

I have a crush on someone I've never met. Is that totally out of line?

In other but equally maybe-ridiculous notes, I remember reading something Judith Butler said once about butch/femme and SM discourses being really formative to her, etc etc. And I just can't help but think that Judy is a big ole butch bottom who likes subbing for imperious femmes.

It seems wildly inappropriate to speculate on a favorite philosopher/theorist's sexuality, and yet I can't help myself.

Also for *some* inexplicable reason this reminds me of taxishoes's assertion that ze and I will never be attracted to the same person, ever. I mean I find that hard to believe, even though all signs point to YES, You Are Absolutely Right Dude. Haha.

Jaclyn is coming over any minute now. I'm excited but my tummy hurts. I should shower but I don't feel like it. I miss Val already. Today I was kneeling down to get something out of the lower level of the box and he was going to open the top one, so I made to move but he said, "No, stay down there. I want to be above your head, so I can hurt you before you go." Awww. He does love me.

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[kaiaroo.livejournal.com]

:grin:

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

At the Judith Butler stuff or the chef stuff or what eh?

(grinning back, by the way)

[kaiaroo.livejournal.com]

well, as much as i find butler's statement to be pretty speculative (or narrow-minded, i cant tell since its out of context); it was more the last paragraph that had me grinning.

but, the whole post just kinda just came together and resulted in a big grin.

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

I totally took it out of context. She qualifies it by saying something like many, but by no means all...and not exclusively...etc. But yeah.

[kaiaroo.livejournal.com]

hehe gotcha. its not that i dont agree in some cases. just a blanket statement wouldnt make much sense to me.

[taxishoes.livejournal.com]

You are so cute it hurts. Ahaha.

You are also gross, meaning: I can't imagine how smelly you are right now.

p.s. I get crushes on people I've never met all the time.

[ushichan9.livejournal.com]

I could completely agree with the statement that you two will never be attracted to the same people only because I don't think I could see hir and I ever being attracted to the same people. Get it?

-kyle-

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

Got it. So theoretically you and I could be attracted to the same person then, right?
Duh.

[strauss.livejournal.com]

Rosi Braidotti is hotter than Judy Butler, but possibly only b/c I am being a crush snob and not as many Americans know/know of Rosi. Plus there's the whole thing of Rosi being comphrehensible and nice and me actually having spent time with her.
Still, though, the idea of Judy as a butch bottom to an imperious femme...nice. Big smile.

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

Yeah I bet I'd have a crush on Rosi too if I had seen her at the post office ;). I actually just picked up her metamorphoses again.
Clearly this just means that we need to hang out and talk feminist philosophy.

(plus the thing is Judy B. isn't *hot*, per se. She's kinda like a butch Jewish grandma, even though she's only a tiny bit older than my mom. Judith H., on the other hand--Jesus Christ. Totally make the cut-off in terms of age, too.)

[strauss.livejournal.com]

halberstam...mmm. i haven't seen any recent pictures of her, though. have you?
and yes, we really must hang out! at the beehive, where there's BZZing all around (we're big big dorks. and the people living in our house are b, another zach, and myself. and the house is yellow with a sort of honeycomb roof).
also, mostly unrelated, how much longer do you have in undergrad? what are your plans for afterward?

oh. oh my.

[phlat.livejournal.com]

yup. i'm gonna have to agree with oli. my goodness but she's handsome.

also, for the record i agree, again, that the dashing young stephano lad really really oughta visit us at our hive next year.

and i feel inclined to make suggestive comments about drones and queen bees...


but that would be totally inappropriate.

the top one looks pretty recent.

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

and as my friend RK once said, "*cum.*" To the Halberstam pictures, I mean.

And while I can't quite work out the schema, I'm glad that you just eroticized the hive, B.

can't wait to visit you both,
Oli

plans? i'm supposed to have plans?

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

I can't believe that anagram. Oh it hurts it's so perfect/dorky/wonderful.

I've got another two years in my undergrad stuff, two years that I'm actually still pretty excited about, two years that don't seem like anywhere *near* enough time to study what I want to...Hence, at some point in the not-so-distant future, grad school. I don't want to go immediately upon graduating Vassar, but I don't want to wait too long either. Thinking about where to go/how to apply/how to pay for it/etc makes me a little anxious, but I think it's mostly cos I'm so excited at the prospect of doing it., and it's such a huge overwhelming and bizarre process to me.

Like, can I translate German and French philosophical texts? Can I even read/understand/speak a word of German? Like fuck I can. We'll see.

What are you doing? You're a year ahead of me, right? Why do I get the impression that you're someone who's got his shit together and actually has, well, yknow, a plan?