On the phone with my mother a while back, I mentioned how nice German sounds. She said she finds it too guttural. Since I used to think the same thing, I said maybe she associates it with all those brusque, crazed WWII speeches, and she just hasn't heard the right person speaking German. I was thinking specifically of
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I think as long as you don't have a fetish for people in Nazi uniforms, you're in the clear.
And if you DO develop a fetish for people in Nazi uniforms, I think your Jewishness probably makes it okay.
If I develop a fetish for people in Nazi uniforms, there might be trouble. I'd probably have to make large donations to the JDL to make up for it.
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Fortunately all of my weird fetishes are just weird.
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Also, hey, thanks for the links at the top! I hadn't known the actor, but he definitely brings sexiness into the language.
Actually, I felt exactly the same way about Arabic -- thought it was a pretty ugly and scary language, until I heard it spoken in The Band's Visit; throughout the whole movie, really, and in this scene in particular. Small town loser ( ... )
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Thank you for the link, too -- I haven't seen that movie, although possibly you've told me about it? -- and for sharing your thoughts.
Not to make light of things, but maybe diplomacy could start to make use of attractive actors to heal rifts between cultures that have been taught to hate each other!
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I also found it funny that we both posted about our embarrassment over considering an RPS pairing. :)
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Re: second part of your post, I come from at once a similar and very different cultural background. My country was occupied by the Germans in WWII, my grandparents lived through it, and our studied history was always interwoven with very personal and physical reminders of the war all around us - from the family albums at home to the town monuments to the field trips to mass graves of WWII victims, many of whom were related to our families. (Of course, there was also quite a system of representational history in place, nation-wide, and with it came quite a bit of fetishization of this history; it's difficult not to with the sheer scope of suffering and destruction our nation endured in WWII - except when it grew into victimization fetish, and that's a whole other set of problems.) As is the way with the reality of surviving, we basically incorporated this living past into our understanding of life - and moved on. ( ... )
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Eh, complex issues are complex. But I'm curious about all this; is it the sort of thing you'd care to talk about at some point? You know, when we get tired of debating the finer merits of gay porn and tentacles and such.
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