Off to burn Carthage to the fucking ground bros. Galatea - keep these boys in line. Paper - i'll return to check your progress.
its an obscure french movie about herculine barbin who was a hermaphrodite that most likely had 5 alpha reductase deficiency or penis at twelve disease many times someone that has 5-ard is mistakenly designated as a girl when they are born as the inability to metabolize testosterone causes their genitalia to completely default into an apparent yet non functioning vagina though they are in reality genetically men. many supermodels are rumored to possess forms of androgen insensitivity as it tends to produce above average height, unblemished skin, and androgynous features like the 6'2 model andrej pejic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculine_Barbin herculine barbin is interesting to me because of her memoirs. i think that it reveals something about humanity thats supposed to be a secret but i dont really know what that secret is yet. but i know there is something here. theres an ancient fascination to hermaphrodites in art and mythology because they represent the inability to bear children like we can and are therefore unfettered by a regular human fate. they exist only unto themselves and thus have no true stake in human matters. the fascination may be that because they can only have sex for pleasure we therefore have a gross envy for this kind of ungodly androgynous existence and that we secretly wish to revert back to this nihilistic animal creature that has no gender or race or morality. is this who we really are underneath everything and is that why we think androgyny is beautiful http://books.google.com/books?id=GxFjeOf02rgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=herculine barbin&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ft_mUs2gKvOosQS1tYCgAg&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false barbin certainly would not think that as she hated what she was. her whole existence seems to me be a massive struggle to escape out of her degraded state. she wanted to be human but could not. i wonder why she was a lesbian. do you have any ideas there?
as it happens, the last time I played a game of civilization, the Carthaginians were the last civ standing. they'd been trying to attack one of my cities for centuries, too. At endgame, I flooded them with an invasion force of frigates, galleons, and a horde of dragoons. ave.
