(or if I didn't, I should have). As Abraham Lincoln said on meeting Harriett Beecher Stowe (author of Uncle Tom's Cabin), "So, here's the little woman who gave us this great big war." I'd trade all the psychologists out there for one of her. Where is Saikaku when you need him? "Even the sons of merchants sweating over their scales, farm boys slaving in the fields, and salt makers' sons burnt black on the beaches, no matter how rude their appearance or menial their task, all yearned to sacrifice their lives for the sake of male love. Boys without male lovers, like women without husbands, were thought of with pity. Boy love became the fashion, and the love between men and women went into precipitous decline." Then all the psychologists would rush about explaining why such precipitous decline is completely with what "the science" should tell us to expect -- indeed validated by statistical studies buttressed by rigorous regression analyses. SR [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonymisierungsdienst] |