Friday, February 19, 2010

Dirty, Dirty, Dandies

Sorry for my lack of posts these past two days, I have been under the weather with a bad stomach bug (which started with me vomiting pretty colors and ended in the ER). As a result, I have not really had time to post or to pay attention to things for posting.

People often think of today's teenagers as being perverted and dirty minded. This perception is not untrue. However, they tend to fail to take into account this fact:

Everyone, no
Matter sex, race, or age is
A bit perverted.


Really, even hundreds of years ago, when you'd expect everybody to be all prim and proper, people (and upperclass ones at that) had dirty, dirty minds (in fact, the Hasbro game "Dirty, Dirty, Dandies" is based on them). Seriously. In my English class, we're reading the works of Oscar Wilde, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Michael Field (who is actually 2 lesbians), and Von Sacher-Masoch (whose last name is the origin of the word "masochism."). They write poems and pieces about lesbians and sex and all sorts of artful and perverted things. They are dirty minded individuals, so next time your parents chide for a "that's what she said" joke, remind them that some of the greatest writers in history were perverts.

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