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I had a long post about why I don't support the Lambda decision and my annoyance at the way the debate is going, if I may dignify it with that name. I don't appreciate self-identifed straight people lambasting self-identified gay bloggers for failing to bow meekly to the Lambda overlords. (Not you, N; f_w denizens and so on.) I consider this, oddly, an unwarranted invasion of our territory; but I seem to be the only one who sees any irony in the situation at all.

So instead I'll just mention Natalie Barney. I'm happy to see that someone else thinks more people should emulate the France of a hundred odd years ago.

Am I the only ancient dyke in town who yearns for those far-off treacherous shores of love? I look with sorrow at the audience at the k.d. lang concert and pine for the Belle Époque. It’s not that I mind my sisters looking like men: far from it. It’s the sort of men they emulate. Boring ones who wash their cars on Saturdays, get a number four from the barber on the corner, and buy their wives Valentine gifts from the Argos catalogue.

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I for one, am down with more ermine for everyone.

WRT to the Lamdba thing- last I heard was a bunch of straight writers getting butthurt that they wouldn't be eligible. Now, do I understand that there are straight writers yelling at gay writers who don't agree with it?

0.o

But only if it's fake ermine. (Mink may be different. Nasty rodents almost deserve to be buggered to death, which is how you get mink fur. And raccoons *of course*.)

The fen all over lj, journalfen, and DW have picked this wank up and linked to a lot of the related posts. Comments, esp in the wank communities, have chastised gay bloggers as well as straight writers for saying they disapprove of Lambda's attitude. Some of these commenters identify as queer, but some I know to be straight. Which is galling.

shows my fur-ignorance- I always thought ermine were nasty rat things like minks and chinchilla. Aren't they a weasel or something?

and if it's possible to be butthurt over something, even if it has nothing to do with them, BY GOD, THE FEN WILL WANK! -.-;

I suppose they're all nasty rat things basically, but some are prettier thn others. I never heard that ermine were the biters that mink are, but maybe that's 'cause not many people get that close to them?

That's a proper write-up - I only know about Renee etc. from Colette's book, no historical context. XD; As I remember it she described most of them as the children of screwed-up aristocratic families.

They certainly behaved like the children of screwed-up aristocratic families, perhaps deliberately, because you notice they were almost all of them gaijin. 'I always wanted to be the daughter of a Conte but I had to settle for being the heir of a beef baron.' Still seems a better way of enjoying Paris than Hemingway and his friends' expat and largely, I fancy, unilingual lifestyle.