Hey, I almost forgot!
Apr. 16th, 2009 10:05 pmA while back, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
amelia_eve gave me the marvelous Marry, Shag, or Push-Off-A-Cliff trio of Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams*. I never followed up, although I've considered the question at odd moments since she gave me the list. And in the end, it wasn't as difficult a decision as I thought it would be when I began to ponder.
Marry: John Adams
I know, right? The least dynamic, least impressive as a name-check. But John Adams, he's a keeper, a family man, not flashy but steady and smart and reliable, and frankly pretty sexy. (I mean, remember him in 1776? :D ) Also it turns out that if you never owned slaves, that ups your hotness quotient by at least 200% for me, which is something that I might have been able to guess but did not actually know about myself until I considered my answers to this question.
Shag: Benjamin Franklin
Hey, BF was an unapologetic horndog. Orgies! Honorary membership in the Hellfire Club! You gotta figure he knows how to make a girl feel good.
Push off a Cliff: Thomas Jefferson
I hate to do this to a man on whom I've had a technocrush since my early teens. A guy who can build clocks and spends his spare time tinkering around with odd little projects to make life more efficient is so deeply sexy. But there's Sally Hemings to consider, and I find that I can't not consider her. Sexual power exchanges are hot -- anyone who knows me at all knows I think so. But they're only hot when the person who gives up power had power to give in the first place; if she was only ever powerless, the "exchange" becomes meaningless and horrifying and the guy who perpetrates such an exchange is, to a twenty-first century mind, little short of a monster. Even given that your social milieu was entirely different from mine, I can't get around it, Thomas. Over you go, with little enough regret on my part.
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* For the uninitiated, I am forever linked inamelia_eve's mind with the founding folk ever since she took a photo of me with a bronze statue of Jefferson wherein Jefferson totally looks as though he's just finished telling me a filthy joke.
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amelia_eve gave me the marvelous Marry, Shag, or Push-Off-A-Cliff trio of Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams*. I never followed up, although I've considered the question at odd moments since she gave me the list. And in the end, it wasn't as difficult a decision as I thought it would be when I began to ponder. Marry: John Adams
I know, right? The least dynamic, least impressive as a name-check. But John Adams, he's a keeper, a family man, not flashy but steady and smart and reliable, and frankly pretty sexy. (I mean, remember him in 1776? :D ) Also it turns out that if you never owned slaves, that ups your hotness quotient by at least 200% for me, which is something that I might have been able to guess but did not actually know about myself until I considered my answers to this question.
Shag: Benjamin Franklin
Hey, BF was an unapologetic horndog. Orgies! Honorary membership in the Hellfire Club! You gotta figure he knows how to make a girl feel good.
Push off a Cliff: Thomas Jefferson
I hate to do this to a man on whom I've had a technocrush since my early teens. A guy who can build clocks and spends his spare time tinkering around with odd little projects to make life more efficient is so deeply sexy. But there's Sally Hemings to consider, and I find that I can't not consider her. Sexual power exchanges are hot -- anyone who knows me at all knows I think so. But they're only hot when the person who gives up power had power to give in the first place; if she was only ever powerless, the "exchange" becomes meaningless and horrifying and the guy who perpetrates such an exchange is, to a twenty-first century mind, little short of a monster. Even given that your social milieu was entirely different from mine, I can't get around it, Thomas. Over you go, with little enough regret on my part.
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* For the uninitiated, I am forever linked in
amelia_eve's mind with the founding folk ever since she took a photo of me with a bronze statue of Jefferson wherein Jefferson totally looks as though he's just finished telling me a filthy joke.Leave a livejournal comment
