Note the country where he wore that helmet
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Good thing it’s on a helmet, I guess. Stoning is still on the books, despite not being used.
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I was unaware of this thread of fanfic, but I like that it is getting great reviews, and that its mere existence serves to correct some of JKR’s worst tendencies.
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And passed:
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WhooHoo!
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I don’t have any links in English, but Tokyo is actually the sixth prefecture in Japan to introduce same sex partnerships (as they call it).
Osaka, Ibaraki, Gunma, Mie and Saga already have it. I don’t know why the reporting in English doesn’t mention that, because all of the articles I’m seeing in Japanese do.
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oh, that’s cool!
i noticed some of the us coverage mention a recent(?) ruling of the court system that the constitution doesn’t prohibit same sex marriages, so local ( or national ) laws can permit it now. kind of a weird two step, but seems like progress
( interesting that katakana is used for partnership. i wonder is there no japanese word for it, or is it to specifically make it mean a love relationship vs other kinds of partnership? ( which can get confusing having just the one word in english sometimes ) )
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Evidently, Akita Prefecture is now actively considering it as well
As for the use of katakana, it’s just really trendy to use foreign words. My company is big on ダイバシティー＆インクルージョン (Diversity & Inclusion) and サスティナブル (Sustainable) these days. There are words for these things in Japanese, but writing them that way makes them feel more conceptual and less real-world.
ETA: This is by far the most annoying part of the language, as I have to make an effort to mispronounce words that exist in my native tongue. I never minded kanji, but I still have to stop and remember how English words have been butchered in katakana.
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“The report also says more than 2 million adults in the U.S. could identify as transgender, higher than previous estimates of approximately 1.4 million.
Bisexual people represent the largest contingent of the LGBTQ community, making up about 4% of respondents in the national survey, the report says.”
Exclusion from the census is and continues to be politically driven, of course. Don’t have to worry about people’s needs when you can’t prove those needs (or they) exist from the census data.
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I for one welcome our new gay overlords!
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More on the Eagle…
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excerpt: Jeff Green, a billionaire thought to be the richest person from Utah, resigned from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, writing in a letter to the church’s president that he believes the institution has “hindered global progress in women’s rights, civil rights and racial equality, and LGBTQ+ rights,” according to The Salt Lake Tribune.
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