Politics quiz

[snowgrouse]

What a surprise... although why it puts Hillary Clinton so close to Gandhi boggles the mind. And dude, not many people realise that Gandhi really didn't like gays, so I'm more liberal than him, omg.

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[spacefall]

Ghandi had a lot of very weird ideas, especially in his youth.

Also, argh, 'gay' used as a noun.

[snowgrouse]

Argh, Gandhi spelled "Ghandi";). And I suppose I'm just lazy because it's easier to type one word than two.

Gandhi and Nehru did a lot of damage to ancient monuments depicting homosexual Tantra and bliss. Wankery. Glad they didn't tear down all of Khajuraho, or try to censor the bit from the scriptures where Shiva drinks Agni's semen. Phbthhtbbhbhbhttthhh, I say.

[spacefall]

Scuse the typo. Should really be able to spell something when it's written in front of me. ;) Anyway, I am generally suspicious of Gandhi despite respecting a lot of what he did. He gets used as a veggie icon a lot in a sort of pseudo-mystical way, but it was flippin' *British* veggies who converted him.

I'm probably being wussy, but 'gays' bugs me mainly because it's the language of homophobes in the UK. Also the grammar thing, though the net isn't really the place for talking about grammar ;)

[snowgrouse]

Yeah, I had a twinge of "hm, hang on, does this sound like a teenager who calls everything bad gay?" when I used it. "Gay people" it shall be, then. Thanks for the link to E'trix's Holmes fic, wouldn't have found it otherwise. Glad I can at least understand *some* of the references this time:)... (E'trix really should hire herself out as a popular culture encyclopedia, yes.)