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Read it and weep: Separating anatomy from what it means to be a man or a woman, New York City is moving forward with a plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate even if they have not had sex-change surgery (NYT free subscription blah blah).
Видимо, они обсмотрелись «Жизни Брайана по Монти-Пайтон». Или наоборот.
Francis: Why are you always on about women, Stan?
Stan: (pause) I want to be one.
(pause)
Reg: What?
Stan: I want to be a woman. From now on I want you all to call me Loretta.
Reg: What!?
Stan: It's my right as a man.
Judith: Why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
Stan: I want to have babies.
Reg: You want to have babies?!?!?!
Stan: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
Reg: But you can't have babies.
Stan: Don't you oppress me.
Reg: I'm not oppressing you, Stan - you haven't got a womb. Where's the fetus going to gestate? You going to keep it in a box?
Stan (starts crying).
Judith: Here! I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans', but that he can have the right to have babies.
Francis: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister, sorry.
Reg: What's the point?
Francis: What?
Reg: What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies, when he can't have babies?
Francis: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
Reg: It's symbolic of his struggle against reality.
Как вы считаете, учреждение «Всемирной коалиции в защиту здравого смысла» назрело? Я бы принял посильное участие в работе московского капитула, у нас тут тоже есть чем заняться.