His irises were brown, clouding into orange, with brighter flecks around his pupils. Then it became as important not to look as to look, as I feared I would be lost in a rush of bronze motes. (查看原文)
"person who are ready to admit possession of a stigma... may nonetheless make a great effort to keep the stigma from looming large." He (Erving Goffman) calls this behavior "covering". Goffman distinguishes passing from covering by noting that passing pertains to the visibility of a particular trait, while covering pertains to its obtrusiveness. (查看原文)
A colleague once told me a story of a house full of books. The house belonged to an intellectual historian who had accumulated a library with tens of thousands of volumes. When he decided to move, a friend of his who was a civil engineer urged care. The house contained so many books, the friend said, that it had sunk and settled around them, becoming dependent on them for structural support. Unless the books were removed in a slow spiral from the top down, the engineer warned, the house risked collapse.
After my colleague finished this story, she noticed my wide open eyes. She asked if I related to the historian.
“No”, I said, “I related to the house.” (查看原文)
Custody? Must be straight to parent? The necessity to pass to children? When the kids’ gender identity is being formed?
These are forcing gays to surrender their basic rights of citizenship: the rights of political and advocacy or association. The case law made their children the hostage of the state.
What were these individuals flaunting that needed to be penalized so severely? Straights engage in this activity all the time, so the activity is not intrinsically indiscreet. I am left with no answer but that they were flaunting their belief in their own equality. They were flaunting the belief that they, and not the state or society, should determine what kinds of human bonds are worthy of expression in the public sphere.
If courts make critical entitlements - such as employment or custody ... (查看原文)
