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Monday, January 23, 2012

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The Safety of Categories

"When you start operating on the principle that you indeed can divide people into sheep and goats, then there’s also the idea that you must divide people into sheep and goats and there are certain boundaries that cannot be crossed without reclassifying."
It's once more into the breach with trying to get society to roll back the helpful and also not at all helpful classification of people into "gay" and "straight." Anyway, that's Hanne Blank, author of Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality, out next week.

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jolie
jolie (#16)

I'm a goat in sheep's clothing! Or am I a sheep in goat's clothing? I dunno - which ones are supposed to be the homos again?

deepomega
deepomega (#1,720)

@jolie: Having you heard the phrase, "Gayer than a goat in the grass"?

RonMwangaguhung
RonMwangaguhung (#3,697)

Today I am goatish. In college I was sheep until graduation.

John Ore
John Ore (#7,170)

Sheep? Goats? Yeah, and you wonder why Republicans think that gay marriage will lead to humans marrying animals.

HiredGoons
HiredGoons (#603)

You're all sheep.

deepomega
deepomega (#1,720)

@HiredGoons WAKE UP SHEEPLE

whizz_dumb
whizz_dumb (#10,650)

Feeling like a herded animal over here :-((

La Cieca
La Cieca (#1,110)

Some of us are sheep and some of us are goats, but Choire is an angora rabbit.

oldtaku
oldtaku (#9,009)

And then the goats and the sheep can both hate those who can't commit to being a goat or sheep. Everyone wins!

riotnrrd
riotnrrd (#840)

My robe, Antoninus. My taste includes both sheep and goats.

Ham Snadwich
Ham Snadwich (#11,842)

@riotnrrd - I had no idea what he was talking about when I originally saw that. Of course I was 12, and watching with my grandma.

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