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They called my brother "Mr.

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 08:35:39 +0000

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They called my brother "Mr. Potato Head" - he actually liked it, to their chagrin.
My nickname was more of a hermaphroditic nature, for silly grade school reasons, but somehow had morphed by 12th grade into something less disagreeable and even Tolkienish, depending on which form.

People were always shitty towards each other & likely always will be - I don't see kindness sprouting from any of the new movements, except exceptional cliquish kindness - same as it always was.

Ok like a year ago I would

artappraiser — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 06:48:19 +0000

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Ok like a year ago I would say this is a bizarro new development to this story. But we've had some major culture change in that year, so it's a new development but pretty standard in celeb and arts world these days (watch those pronouns, especially when people have bird or hot pepper names! Apparently the NYTimes style rulebook editor has decided the pronoun their writers will use for now is "they" and "their")

Who Is Rain Dove? by Jonah Engel Bromwich @ NYTimes.com/Style, Aug. 30

The gender-nonconforming model has been in the news after having turned texts sent by Asia Argento over to the police.

Rain Dove. Credit: Justin Tallis/
Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Rain Dove, a model who is dating Rose McGowan, has been in the newsafter turning over texts with the Italian actress Asia Argento to the police. The texts may be used as evidence in a potential criminal case against Ms. Argento, who arranged to pay $380,000 to “help” Jimmy Bennett, a former child actor who said she sexually assaulted him when he was 17.

Who Is Rain Dove?

Rain Dove Dubilewski is a 28-year-old model who was born in New York and grew up in Vermont. The model prefers gender-neutral pronouns.

Dove said in interviews with The New York Times that they had been aware as a child that “there wasn’t language for how I felt” with regard to gender identity.

Starting in elementary school in rural Vermont, Dove was nicknamed “Tranny Danny” by classmates, but did not realize that the name was an insult until halfway through freshman year, according to an interview with BuzzFeed in 2015. In high school, when a great-grandparent was about to die, the teenager decided to take the family name Dubilewski, and added Rain Dove, an Abenaki name they had been called since early childhood, to their legal name.

Dove moved to Colorado in their late teenage years, where they worked as part of a chain-saw fire prevention team. Other firefighters treated Dove as a man, and Dove maintained a male identity while working with peers to prevent and fight fires.

“Every day I spent doing it, the deeper I got in,” Dove said. “I was a little bit scared. People were very transphobic and very homophobic.” [.....]

OH YES, THERE'S MORE...

Or simply I finished school

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 02:00:00 +0000

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Or simply I finished school early and left home just turned 17, so I was already in college when I, the underage lad with no one to understand his perspective, was supposed to be so endangered by them damn elder wimmin.

we are on the same page, why

artappraiser — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 01:51:27 +0000

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we are on the same page, why I used the wording "paid off the blackmailer" as regards Sir Bourdain. He impressed me as just the kinda guy to think "what's money for if not that?"

Edit to add: maybe we think the same because I have a similar dad story. Mine a sole surviving son dragged from high school graduation by the draft board to basic training and loaded on a ship to Japan with a whole bunch of other scared shitless guys Picked up some surviving troops from some small islands on the way, who scared them more shitless with stories of crazy Japanese who won't leave a cave even if you shoot a flamethrower in there. Lock and load, get ready to land, and the atom bombs go off. But in a way, isn't it kinda the greatest generation's fault we now treat 18 yr. olds like babies?

Trauma and adversity, stigma.

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 01:36:00 +0000

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Trauma and adversity, stigma, bravery... rough stuff. Since he doesn't make any attempt to explain what was so life-destroying about it, it really is hard to understand his perspective as an "underage" 17-year-old boy. I know my father joined the Navy at 17 to go fight the Japanese, but he didn't have to face a 37-year-old woman - must have been rough (and my coyote experience was only 15 years difference, so I'm lacking some perspective). But hey, $380k may help to heal the pain, to allow him better to speak out and "break the silence", even if it's a bunch of market tested word salad with no details.

BTW - at what point does this get called extortion, or is that not a thing anymore?

the saga continues, a summary

artappraiser — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 01:22:55 +0000

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the saga continues, a summary to date followed by

....Argento's lawyer, Carrie Goldberg, has not responded to CNN's requests for comment.

Bennett released a statement to CNN on Wednesday in response to the New York Times story.

Below is his statement in full:....

Asia Argento's accuser speaks out

By Megan Thomas, CNN, Updated 3:06 PM ET, Thu August 23, 2018

Bourdain was far more to the

barefooted — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 21:45:19 +0000

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Bourdain was far more to the movement than just her, and did far more than make her heart swoon as a "white knight admirer". If he did what she says, and he's f'ing dead so can't really dispute it, what is her reasoning for throwing him under the bus? Because that's how it seems to me. It wasn't me, it was my man ... and he was worried about his own reputation (and felt sorry for the dude, does that help?). Screw that - and screw her.

sex, it's complicated,

artappraiser — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:47:49 +0000

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sex, it's complicated, continued

Wow, simply wow. Combine that

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 06:16:08 +0000

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Wow, simply wow. Combine that with Bourdain's suicide... everything's crazy.

She is claiming the

artappraiser — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 01:22:29 +0000

In reply to Police investigate sexual assault claim against #MeToo activist actress Asia Argento

She is claiming her chivalrous white knight admirer, Sir Anthony Bourdain, paid off the blackmailing teen:

“I am deeply shocked and hurt by having read news that is absolutely false. . . . I have never had any sexual relationship with Bennett.” https://t.co/dcOO74GfVI
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) August 22, 2018

Now aside from questions about verity, that is one good narrative. What Metoo supporter does not in her heart wish the world were populated with such (gentle)men to make a lady's heart swoon?