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Monday, 15 April 2013
'If Paris is a woman, Lisbon should be a lesbian.'
NOW you know why I don't wear high heels! (note to editor: is that right anyway?).
Actually, I used to have one colleague who thought that he would offend me by pretending to make a mistake and changing that one little letter in my surname. I think he was following one of two possible trains of thought:
Train of thought number 1: woman - doesn't find me attractive - lesbian Train of thought number 2: woman - feminist - lesbian
I played along by snarling under my breath "nominative determinism" whenever I saw him, and by holding hands with my female Spanish and Portuguese colleagues whenever he hove near. And not just then, actually. In Iberia, women, at least of my generation, often do, whatever their sexual preference, so the article got that one wrong...
Lots of Lisboan kisses to all of you, whether girls or boys, on this semi-sunny day. M xxx
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ReplyDeleteNOW you know why I don't wear high heels! (note to editor: is that right anyway?).
Actually, I used to have one colleague who thought that he would offend me by pretending to make a mistake and changing that one little letter in my surname. I think he was following one of two possible trains of thought:
Train of thought number 1: woman - doesn't find me attractive - lesbian
Train of thought number 2: woman - feminist - lesbian
I played along by snarling under my breath "nominative determinism" whenever I saw him, and by holding hands with my female Spanish and Portuguese colleagues whenever he hove near. And not just then, actually. In Iberia, women, at least of my generation, often do, whatever their sexual preference, so the article got that one wrong...
Lots of Lisboan kisses to all of you, whether girls or boys, on this semi-sunny day. M xxx
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