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A group I've joined called Academic Bi, from their profile: Academic_bi is an international mailing list for discussion, exchanging information and ideas about topics related to bisexual theory, queer theory and the academic study of bisexuality/pansexuality/fluidity and omnisexuality of course :)

People are making introductions!

And a little funny thing for the more classically minded queers among us, courtesy of my big brother:
The one that amuses me the most is the term
"metrosexual". It's supposed to refer to a hip,
urban (METROpolitan) guy who dresses well
and can handle being "just friends" with women.
But "metropolitan" comes from "mother city,"
with the "metro-" part being "mother."
Making metrosexuals, well, rather Oedipal.


Funny!

Date: 2010-01-25 06:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] antikythera.livejournal.com
Ha! I knew something bothered me etymologically about 'metrosexual', but I wasn't sure what. Actually, I think I just figured that 'metropolitan' didn't mean what they thought it meant. I didn't know what it really meant, though.

Anyways, the word should probably be cosmosexual, like cosmopolitan.

Date: 2010-01-25 06:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mao4269.livejournal.com
But "cosmo" means universe, so cosmosexual also doesn't convey the right meaning. You could always try polisexual ;).

Date: 2010-01-25 07:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] antikythera.livejournal.com
Cosmopolitan means what they thought metropolitan meant, is what I was getting at. :)

Polysexual, pansexual, and omnisexual would mean something like 'has sex with everything', a la Jack Harkness. ;)

Date: 2010-01-25 07:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
Her pun worked!

:D

Date: 2010-01-25 07:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mao4269.livejournal.com
Jack Harkness was a country boy, he didn't live in no polis (when he was young)!

Date: 2010-01-25 07:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stateofwonder.livejournal.com
Ooooh! Can one join this mailing list without using yahoo email?

Date: 2010-01-25 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
Sure, I'm using my Gmail :)

Date: 2010-01-25 07:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stateofwonder.livejournal.com
Fab, just joined :D Thanks for pointing it out!

Date: 2010-01-25 07:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ayalanetzer.livejournal.com
I'm joining.or at least bookmarking it.. :) thanks.
Edited Date: 2010-01-25 08:00 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-01-25 08:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
No prob :)

Date: 2010-01-26 01:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] antikythera.livejournal.com
What pun? *looks* Polisexual, not poly. Got it.

In the words of a great sage, the word 'politics' comes from the word 'poli' meaning 'many, and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking parasites'.

Date: 2010-01-26 07:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hemlock-sholes.livejournal.com
Actually, cosmos literally means an orderly and harmonious system.

Cosmology and Cosmetics have a common root :)

Someone who is cosmosexual would, I suppose, someone who has only harmonious and successful relationships... which are, IMO, the best kind!

Date: 2010-01-30 03:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malle-babbe.livejournal.com
Interesting point on the etymological analysis of the word "Metrosexual". My first thought about the term was more along the lines of, "Someone was too lazy to look up 'dandy' in the dictionary..."

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V and Justice

V: Ah, I was forgetting that we are not properly introduced. I do not have a name. You can call me V. Madam Justice...this is V. V... this is Madam Justice. hello, Madam Justice.

Justice: Good evening, V.

V: There. Now we know each other. Actually, I've been a fan of yours for quite some time. Oh, I know what you're thinking...

Justice: The poor boy has a crush on me...an adolescent fatuation.

V: I beg your pardon, Madam. It isn't like that at all. I've long admired you...albeit only from a distance. I used to stare at you from the streets below when I was a child. I'd say to my father, "Who is that lady?" And he'd say "That's Madam Justice." And I'd say "Isn't she pretty."

V: Please don't think it was merely physical. I know you're not that sort of girl. No, I loved you as a person. As an ideal.

Justice: What? V! For shame! You have betrayed me for some harlot, some vain and pouting hussy with painted lips and a knowing smile!

V: I, Madam? I beg to differ! It was your infidelity that drove me to her arms!

V: Ah-ha! That surprised you, didn't it? You thought I didn't know about your little fling. But I do. I know everything! Frankly, I wasn't surprised when I found out. You always did have an eye for a man in uniform.

Justice: Uniform? Why I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about. It was always you, V. You were the only one...

V: Liar! Slut! Whore! Deny that you let him have his way with you, him with his armbands and jackboots!

V: Well? Cat got your tongue? I though as much.

V: Very well. So you stand revealed at last. you are no longer my justice. You are his justice now. You have bedded another.

Justice: Sob! Choke! Wh-who is she, V? What is her name?

V: Her name is Anarchy. And she has taught me more as a mistress than you ever did! She has taught me that justice is meaningless without freedom. She is honest. She makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike you, Jezebel. I used to wonder why you could never look me in the eye. Now I know. So good bye, dear lady. I would be saddened by our parting even now, save that you are no longer the woman I once loved.

*KABOOM!*

-"V for Vendetta"

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