One of my special education kids (who is obsessed with Japanese history) suddenly asked me if his eyes looked drastically different from the other kids'. I was wondering why, and then he told me that he is related to Tokugawa Ieyasu, and even the Japanese Emperor.
I asked him how he was so sure, and he simply (but confidently) said, "my eyes and the shape of my face looks just like them! You can tell in 0.2 seconds!"
He was constantly staring into a mirror the entire class, as well as trying to convince me that he has royal blood.
.....Maybe this was like when I thought I had some special powers that I (or anyone else) hadn't discovered yet in junior high.
Friday, February 25, 2005
10:16 a.m.
Something I found while cleaning out my computer..about sexuality.
From: Honor Thy Children, p.312
"Many men are afraid of gays because they really can't imagine the act of
sex as love. That's because homophobia is also about the denigration of
women by men for whom sex is not about love but about power and
domination. If in his heart, a heterosexual man is behaving as a predator,
he is threatened by homosexual men, whom he imagines to be capable of
dominating other men. Perhaps he could be dominated, too. This is the threat.
Any man who understands sex as an act of love has a better chance of
imagining two men loving each other and expressing their love sexually."
I wish I had read this book when I was writing my research paper a few years back.
