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OPUS GENERIS is a suite of five classical poems which give a dialectical, forward-moving, depersonalized picture of the gender-identity formation process in terms of traditional classical myth. The aim was to do justice to both the telos of heterosexual marriage and child-rearing, as affirmed by the Judaeo-Christian moral tradition, AND the zigs and zags of the identity formation process, as covered in classical poetry, and all in the context of a night's poetic entertainment in two languages and various meters.
Catullus, Cybele and Attis (Latin, galliambics, failure to escape from the mother)
Pindar, Olympian #1 (Greek, epinician, powerful male figure pulls boy away)
Odyssey Book II (Greek, hexameters, boy tries to play the man independently and fails)
Ovid, Daphne & Apollo (Latin, hexameters, boy turns from playing with boys to pursuing a girl)
The aim is not to court controversy as being pro or anti trans, or pro or anti pedophilia. The aim is to provide material that is well balanced enough to provoke interesting and necessary discussion.
Catullus, Cybele and Attis (Latin, galliambics, failure to escape from the mother)
Pindar, Olympian #1 (Greek, epinician, powerful male figure pulls boy away)
Odyssey Book II (Greek, hexameters, boy tries to play the man independently and fails)
Ovid, Daphne & Apollo (Latin, hexameters, boy turns from playing with boys to pursuing a girl)
The aim is not to court controversy as being pro or anti trans, or pro or anti pedophilia. The aim is to provide material that is well balanced enough to provoke interesting and necessary discussion.
Before OPUS GENERIS, study of sexuality was balkanized into Christians obsessed with marriage and child-rearing as the one true sexual orientation, and fetish-based people obsessed with every other kind of sexual outlet, all of which is regarded by Christians as sexual DISorientation. Having studied OPUS GENERIS, people began to see the gender-identity formation process as a dialectic in which one sexual focus gave way to the next.
Matthew Barney's five-part opus THE CREMASTER CYCLE was a major inspiration for OPUS GENERIS, as was Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. The way Christian "conversion therapy" programs failed to cover the necessary territory was a very powerful motivator.
Matthew Barney's five-part opus THE CREMASTER CYCLE was a major inspiration for OPUS GENERIS, as was Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. The way Christian "conversion therapy" programs failed to cover the necessary territory was a very powerful motivator.
by Didaskalos January 27, 2022
Get the OPUS GENERIS mug.On the YT pod-cast "Gender: A Wider Lens" #51, "Clearing of the Pink Mist," Debbie Hayton introduces the term PINK MIST as a way of explaining what was going through "her" mind when her formerly male self decided to sign up for MTF gender-surgery. In summary: "I wasn't thinking. I was in a pink mist."
"Debbie Hayton has a lot of balls to come out and declare that her brain was off-line the day she signed up for girl-surgery. She just comes out and admits, "I wasn't thinking, I was in a PINK MIST." I just wish other pre-op trans-people would have the same insight into their trans-think as a temporary, delusional state of mind, and maybe talk to some clearer heads before making the big decision to un-gender themselves."
by Didaskalos January 27, 2022
Get the Pink Mist mug.Autogeinophilia: The little-known fetish of dressing up as Ed Gein AS HE dresses up in his home-made woman-skin suit and cavorting about his creepy Wisconsin farmhouse, with the idea of being close to his dead mother by literally investing himself in a suit made of female skin. A deliberate pun on autogynophilia, a trending term as Biden takes office in 2021.
Benjamin Boyce retweeted Donovan Cleckley's clip of Jazz Jennings's mom saying:
“I have woken Jazz out of a dead sleep and taken the dilator and put the lubrication on it and said: ‘Here! You take this, and you put it in your vagina. If not, I will.’ I will be so mad if ... that thing seals up.”
- Jeanette Jennings
I naturally responded quoting Buffalo Bill's creepy remark to the unfortunate girl is he was fattening up in a pit to make a female-skin-suit out of:
"It puts the lubrication on its dilator, or else it's back to the clinic for NO GENITALS AT ALL!"
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In my day, we thought we were being racy when we "lost" our third retainer, and, being told our teeth would snap back into the wrong place, said, "So what if they do?"
Reading up on Ed Gein, the model for Buffalo Bill, Psycho, Leatherface, etc, led me to a disturbing image of a "reproduction" belt made of female nipples, part of what I could only call his "autogeinophilia" paraphernalia collection, and thus the portmanteau pun term "Autogeinophilia" was born. Happy 2021, everyone!
“I have woken Jazz out of a dead sleep and taken the dilator and put the lubrication on it and said: ‘Here! You take this, and you put it in your vagina. If not, I will.’ I will be so mad if ... that thing seals up.”
- Jeanette Jennings
I naturally responded quoting Buffalo Bill's creepy remark to the unfortunate girl is he was fattening up in a pit to make a female-skin-suit out of:
"It puts the lubrication on its dilator, or else it's back to the clinic for NO GENITALS AT ALL!"
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In my day, we thought we were being racy when we "lost" our third retainer, and, being told our teeth would snap back into the wrong place, said, "So what if they do?"
Reading up on Ed Gein, the model for Buffalo Bill, Psycho, Leatherface, etc, led me to a disturbing image of a "reproduction" belt made of female nipples, part of what I could only call his "autogeinophilia" paraphernalia collection, and thus the portmanteau pun term "Autogeinophilia" was born. Happy 2021, everyone!
by Didaskalos January 16, 2021
Get the autogeinophilia mug.The Chicago Hot Dog is a fake sexual act unique to Chicago and its elevated train system.
The Chicago Hot Dog consists of a man receiving oral sex while standing with his back to a pillar of the L-train, and timing his orgasm to coincide with a train going past overhead, thunderously. The skill required to do this -- and sexual pay-off -- are enormous.
The Chicago Hot Dog consists of a man receiving oral sex while standing with his back to a pillar of the L-train, and timing his orgasm to coincide with a train going past overhead, thunderously. The skill required to do this -- and sexual pay-off -- are enormous.
On my last company trip to Chicago I totally failed to close the business deal, but hey, I got a really nice Chicago Hot Dog at midnight, so I didn't go to bed mad.
by Didaskalos January 24, 2021
Get the Chicago Hot Dog mug.This is literally true. In law, kids are legally "infans," that is, they have no voice, and the idea that "the kid said he wanted it!" is no excuse for sex-crimes against children.
Riffing on Billboard Chris's "Kids can not consent to Puberty Blockers,"
and the San Francisco choir singing "We're coming for your children! / We'll convert your children." (#WCYC)
A slogan meant to position the sloganeer against #Pedoschwing2025.
Unless it's being used ironically, in which cases it's meant to accelerate #Pedoschwing2025, under the idea that ALL discussion of pedophilia moves towards normalizing it.
But the presence of the ironic dimension doesn't at all undercut the validity of the plain and simple surface meaning;
on the surface, it's a sentiment that can't be argued with.
To be understood as operating in the same ironic poly-valent space as the Heideggerian term:
#LGBTQΠπ (which term to be written sous-rature, crossed out --- this browser isn't showing that.)
This term COMPLETES the mega-acronym, in accordance with Dr. James Cantor's famous 2018 "include the P!" tweet, but wittier, because Greek Π/π suggests (celibate) Greek MAN/boy relationships, as practiced by those who've read the Phaedros.
It also rejects/denies/opposes paederasty;
It also looks forward to a process of NORMAL male identity formation, which incorporates ( but is not bogged down in) the moments of Great Mother (Trans) obsession and Great Father (homosexual) obsession.
Riffing on Billboard Chris's "Kids can not consent to Puberty Blockers,"
and the San Francisco choir singing "We're coming for your children! / We'll convert your children." (#WCYC)
A slogan meant to position the sloganeer against #Pedoschwing2025.
Unless it's being used ironically, in which cases it's meant to accelerate #Pedoschwing2025, under the idea that ALL discussion of pedophilia moves towards normalizing it.
But the presence of the ironic dimension doesn't at all undercut the validity of the plain and simple surface meaning;
on the surface, it's a sentiment that can't be argued with.
To be understood as operating in the same ironic poly-valent space as the Heideggerian term:
#LGBTQΠπ (which term to be written sous-rature, crossed out --- this browser isn't showing that.)
This term COMPLETES the mega-acronym, in accordance with Dr. James Cantor's famous 2018 "include the P!" tweet, but wittier, because Greek Π/π suggests (celibate) Greek MAN/boy relationships, as practiced by those who've read the Phaedros.
It also rejects/denies/opposes paederasty;
It also looks forward to a process of NORMAL male identity formation, which incorporates ( but is not bogged down in) the moments of Great Mother (Trans) obsession and Great Father (homosexual) obsession.
In the face of over-blown propaganda from both sides, like PRO-TRANS! CUT THE KIDS' BALLS OFF! and KILL THE PEDOS! sometimes it's nice to be out there picketing with a sign saying something nice and relaxing, that everyone can agree with.
<<heavily ironic chilled-out San Diego sigh.>>
So there I am in Balboa Park, in the middle of July, PRIDE 2023 going on around me, wearing a sandwich board saying #KidscannotconsenttoPedophilia" on one side and #LGBTQΠπ (crossed out!) on the other.
<<heavily ironic chilled-out San Diego sigh.>>
So there I am in Balboa Park, in the middle of July, PRIDE 2023 going on around me, wearing a sandwich board saying #KidscannotconsenttoPedophilia" on one side and #LGBTQΠπ (crossed out!) on the other.
by Didaskalos July 30, 2023
Get the #KidsCanNotConsentToPedophilia mug.When dudes show up in Watertown WI in black shirts, masks, matching khaki pants, black flags with swastikas, and chant "Blood blood blood!" "US or the PEDOPHILES!" "NO PEDOS ON OUR STREETS!" it's clear that they're EITHER federal agents tasked with Harvesting the Hate, and letting a thousand Anti-Pedo flowers bloom, OR organic and sincere community-based activists, who just happen to find public discussion of pedophilia exciting.
Calling them #Fedophiles is annoying either way.
If they're FEDS, they're annoyed at being exposed as such.
If they're grassroots activists, they're annoyed at being described as government toys, NPC's.
Calling them #Fedophiles is annoying either way.
If they're FEDS, they're annoyed at being exposed as such.
If they're grassroots activists, they're annoyed at being described as government toys, NPC's.
When the #Fedophiles showed up in Watertown, WI, the witty response would have been to counter-chat at them:
#FEDOPHILES!
Blood blood blood?
More like ERECTION ERECTION ERECTION!
Harvest the Hate!
Harvest the Hate!
Hatin' on PEDOS makes the COUNT-TREE GREAT!
. . . this done in a heavily ironic, heartily affectionate tone, to reflect the understanding that the first step in coming out as a boy-lover, is processing the internal pedo-phobia by doing a lot of external #pedotoileting.
#FEDOPHILES!
Blood blood blood?
More like ERECTION ERECTION ERECTION!
Harvest the Hate!
Harvest the Hate!
Hatin' on PEDOS makes the COUNT-TREE GREAT!
. . . this done in a heavily ironic, heartily affectionate tone, to reflect the understanding that the first step in coming out as a boy-lover, is processing the internal pedo-phobia by doing a lot of external #pedotoileting.
by Didaskalos July 30, 2023
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