 |
|
| Quotes & Quips |
| Compiled By Jack Nichols
Bodybuilder Blues
Bodybuilder Alex Baez dreamed of becoming even more macho with a set of pectoral implants. But the cheap cosmetic surgery job carried out by a cowboy doctor led to disaster….Instead of the manly look he craved, Alex, 47, woke from the anaesthetic with C-cup female breast implants. The Daily Record and Sunday Mail, December 8— "Bogus Plastic Surgeon Boobed On Bodybuilder"--Glasgow, Scotland When Boxer Shorts Become Panties in an Uproar I'm planning to sue Nancy Reagan for naming her dog Rex. Rex Wockner—Responding to reports that boxer, Mike Tyson, is considering legal action against Totem International which markets a "gay doll" called "Tyson." The Wockner Wire, www.planetout.com/wocknerwire Pfc. Barry Winchell's Parents Speak Out
We knew Barry could be deployed and come into harm's way for our
country. We never dreamed that he would be killed by labeling, prejudice
and hatred at home…Don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue' did not protect our son.
It won't protect anyone else's child. This policy must end.
Pat and Wally Kutteles—Pfc. Barry Winchell's mother and father— "Parents of slain soldier say 'don't ask, don't tell' fails"—Seattle Times, December 10 I do Read Books! I do! I read books all the time. I'm reading a book on Dean Acheson right now. George W. Bush—to a New Hampshire audience after being plagued by "intellectual lightweight" rumors. Time magazine predicts 21st Century Sex as Recreation
First, the good news: People will still be trying to get each other into bed
in 2035, though one can only hope the pickup lines will be different by then.
Now here's the recolutionary (or should I say evolutionary) news: sex will
seem a lot less necessary than it does today. Having sex is too much fun for
us to stop, but religious convictions aside, it will be more for recreation than
procreation. Many human beings, especially those who are rich, vain and
ambitious, will be using test tubes—not just to get around infertility and the
lack of suitable partners, but to clone themselves and tinker with their genes.
Matt Ridley—"Will We Still Need to Have Sex?"—Time magazine, November 5 Betrayed by a False Masculinity I suspect that underneath the sons' charge that their fathers did not teach them to be men lies another, unadmitted complaint—that their fathers taught them only too well how to be men, and they are choking on the lesson. These men as boys, faced the age old trade off: If you undergo the painful process of renouncing the "feminine" aspects of your humanity and follow your father into manhood (and what choice do you have, really?) you will share in the spoils of the superior half of the race. Now, as men, they find that the spoils are far more meager than expected. No wonder they feel betrayed. Ellen Willis— "How Now, Iron Johns?"—The Nation, December 13 
Matt Damon in Another Provocative Film
A strong year for adult American movies will be capped by "The Talented Mr. Ripley," which, in an age of rampant reinvention, may be Hollywood's most chilling and up-to-date portrait of the national character. The New York Times Magazine, promotional blurb, December 12 Potato Parents Advise a Sweet Potato Daughter, Yam They warned her against going out and getting half baked because she could get MASHED, get a bad name like HOT POTATO, and then end up with a bunch of TATER TOTS. Paradox magazine, December The Perils of Being Too Sure
It does a man good to turn himself inside out once in a while: to sort out the turn of tables
on himself. It takes a good deal of resolution to do it: yet it should be done—no one is safe
until he can give himself such a drubbing: until he can shock himself out of his complacency…
If we don't look out we develop a bumptious bigotry—a colossal self-satisfaction, which is
worse for a man than being a damned scoundrel.
Walt Whitman— quoted by Horace Traubel in Walt Whitman—Selected Poems 1855-1892, A New Edition edited by Gary Schmidgall, St. Martin's Press, August 1999 New York Times Editorial
'Don't ask, don't tell' has led to increased harassment for homosexuals and
doubling in the number of discharges of gay service members. It has also
turned barracks life into a grotesque trap for many gay men and lesbians.
Nothing brings that fact into harsher focus than the murder of Pfc. Barry Winchell of the 101st Airborne Division at For Campbell, Kentucky, in July. For weeks while his company sergeant looked on and did nothing, Private Winchell silently endured sexual taunts and harassment from his barracks mates. When he finally beat his chief tormentor in a fistfight, that man, Pvt. Calvin Glover, retaliated by beating him to death with a baseball bat two nights later as he slept in his bunk. Editorial— "Rejecting 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell"—The New York Times, December 10 |
© 1997-99 BEI