I have only this to contribute to this thread:
Am I the only one that can’t stop thinking of that Southpark where Cartman finds hippie-Pagan-Goddess religion and everyone starts shoving tampons up their ass except for Kyle whose sacred cycle has yet to begin? And it’s all fun and games until Kenny dies of TSS?
Nothing from the guest of honour? :dubious:
I admit to being mildly puzzled by the recent revelation that it was being repeatedly raped at age 13 that turned Johanna off men - when I’d have assumed that a thirteen-year-old bio-male would not be into men in the first place, by default, though scope exists for the default option not to be the correct one - but then, what do I know? I think the worst I’d have accused her of was the zeal of the recently converted and maybe a touch of the only-tool-is-a-hammer mindset. It’s more tunable-out than some other annoyances.
Nyeh, it takes all kinds. And if Johanna is big on gender issues that’s fine by me. Frankly, it’s a welcome break from the conservative/liberal co-dependency I see too much of.
As for having a (forgive me) ‘hot-button’ issue…
Don’t most of us? No one beats me up for pouncing on media threads. Or Poly for religion threads. Or Dave for insurance threads. We’ve all got our thing.
Diversity is part of the joy of any place you are. At least it is for me. I currently live in a place as non-diverse as it is possible to be. So when I see the local skate rats have organized a lobbying group to represent their desire for a park I toss money their way. Um, and they were listening to Rush during the Labor Day parade.
I like Johanna, sometimes I don’t agree with her posts, or don’t get where she’s coming from, or whatever, but I could say that about 90% of other Dopers.
If Johanna needs to get stuff off her chest and out in the open before she can move on to a point where she is comfortable enough with her identity not to relate everything back to it, well that’s fine.
I probably piss people off by bringing my wedding and marriage into every thread, but that’s because to me it is the single biggest and most exciting event in my life and I want to share that. I’ll get over it eventually, I imagine Johanna will too.
The scroll button on my mouse is there for those times when I can’t be bothered to read what someone says. Just use it and allow people to write whatever they want (within the board rules). Really, they might need to write it, you don’t have to read it.
This wins the Post of the Day award. Seriously!
Another one in the “who knew?” corner, transgendered-wise.
I like Johanna’s posts. She’s smart and kind. What’s not to like?
And this makes you what, exactly–the unpleasant social outcast who can’t even get along with timid little nerds, but hangs out with them anyway because nobody else will take him?
You’re not painting a very flattering picture of yourself here. When I think people are pathetic, I don’t hang around them.
Daniel
Truly? If there are bears in your local wood, then, watch where you’re treading. They leave smelly by-products there.
Oh, ain’t we all.
Does anyone know where Johanna got the Etruscans who read the lesbian poetry?
I don’t know, I kinda like this one:
I read that and put the whole conversation about lesbianism, and yonis and whatnot being shoved in my face and just giggled.
But that’s just me I guess.
I thought it meant one of these ==> 
The OP makes much less sense in that context.
I’m not altogether au fait with Johanna’s quirks and foibles, but each time I read a recount of her exotic aesthetic and calliopic activities, I’m put in mind of the Ab Fab episode where Patsy’s mother (Eleanor Bron) gives birth and then immediately rejects her, crying: “Take it away…and bring me another lover!” Gillian Anderson’s in this episode, as is Philip Franks, with whom I was at school, who was Zeta Jones’s love interest in Darling Buds of May. For those who know the show, he’s the fellow reading the French poetry rhythmically in the background as the birth takes place.
You’re right; it was Urdu.
But what the hell - Johanna is a character, and adds (more or less) to the charm of the Dope. Like alaricthegoth, except not as badly addled by drugs - amusing in small enough doses. So he/she/they/whatever is a transsexual lesbian pagan Cybele priestess Grand Imperial Poo-bah and Keeper of the Secret Handshake - so what? I don’t have to buy into the stuff to be amused by it.
An eccentric but not an asshole. We could use a few more of those.
Come on, y’all, lighten up. Urdu love-poetry for all!
Regards,
Shodan
Lissener’s post was my “second runner up.” But for different reasons.
Two Pit threads with female genetalia being waved in faces is…
…well, actually, not nearly enough!
What he said. Besides, where else am I going to be able to interact with a transsexual lesbian pagan Cybele priestess Grand Imperial Poo-bah and Keeper of the Secret Handshake? That combo is pretty damn hard to find.
Try your local mental institution.
I don’t know why everyone considers her religious beliefs any more whacky than anyone else’s. Unless you were referring to her sexuality/gender issues, in which case…tsk, tsk, tsk.
We really need more trolls. Pitting Johanna for allegedly intrusive hijacking is really scraping the bottom of the offenses barrel.
If that doesn’t break your “batshit crazy” meter, I don’t know what does.
Like I said, I am really an apostle.