Agreed! He's my pretty bad boy seahorse and I will love him until I die. Also he reminds me of xever montes a lot, which makes me hopeful that we might get a chris Bradford counterpart
from “S/he Who” by Mustang Sally (book review of S/he by Minnie Bruce Pratt) published in Summer 1995 issue of TransSisters
This part of the book absolutely sizzles. Here, Pratt articulates how the butch/femme thing cooks for her without mere reference to gender role semiotics — the usual failing of those neobutch/femme fans who take for granted a universal appeal for that dynamic. On dildo/vaginal intercourse, too, she transcends the mere statement of yang/yin to express something original about the desire to be filled by a woman lover. It's an example of how, as I've long thought, a pro-sex feminist could write rings around sex radicals whose work is not informed by feminism but places all the lesbian eggs in the sexual liberation basket. Best of all, this writing passes the ever-popular wet test with flying colors.
In that vein of feminist sex radicalism Pratt moves on to tales of how she and Leslie still manage to commit gender transgressions even among the butch/femme lesbians with whom one would assume they would be right at home. On a book tour with Leslie, Pratt finds herself assumed to be "just a wife,” instead of a writer and theorist in her own right, when she struggles to keep up with a busy book table; she is even dissed as a femme because she doesn’t sport the long nails with which she could open a shrink-wrapped set of books. In the lesbian wars over the appropriateness of butch/femme desire, the lines are usually sharply drawn; Pratt bridges the gap admirably, doing a great service to discourse on lesbian sexuality. She superbly affirms this way of lesbian passion while challenging it to keep from sliding into a complacency which can indeed coast on the heterosexual model.
The Commitments is a 1991 musical comedy-drama film based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Roddy Doyle. It was directed by Alan Parker from a screenplay written by Doyle, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Set in the Northside of Dublin, the film tells the story of Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins), a young music fanatic who assembles a group of working-class youths to form a soul band named "The Commitments". Starring Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle, Dave Finnegan, Bronagh Gallagher, Félim Gormley, Glen Hansard, Dick Massey, Johnny Murphy, Andrew Strong, Kenneth McCluskey