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BUY Slimfast ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION, That chewed up most of the day. Kjøpe Slimfast online, bestill Slimfast online, For dinner, I went to a bistro called Boullion Chartier in the 9th. It was recommended by my exchange mate as a very traditional French bistro--so traditional that they actually keep track of your check by writing it on the tablecloth, buy cheap Slimfast. Since I was alone, Purchase Slimfast online no prescription, they seated me with somebody--the place was empty, but it fills up quickly. He turned out to be a montréalais who spoke excellent English, where can i buy Slimfast online, so I had one last anglophone conversation in Paris over my steak au poivre and profiteroles. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Las Vegas, Nevada, Then I went home and watched the last episode of Heroes, Season 1: my exchange mate had a copy, which I was able to switch over to English, Slimfast 75mg, except for the subtitles for the Japanese characters; those I had to read, Boston, Massachusetts. Charlotte, Carolina, quickly, in French (and French as it's spoken, at that: but now I know that Je l'ai reussi! means "I did it!" in French.)

So that was my Paris sojourn, buy Slimfast online no prescription, my attempt to find out what it would be like to live in the City of Light. And I think I succeeded; it was a good fit, though I recognize to really live there I'd have to truly immerse myself in the language and not spend so much time in self-created anglophone spaces. And of course I found privilege there, expected and unexpected, much that was the same as home, and a few that were quite different.

But you knew that already; heck, it's really not even fair: I always find privilege.

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27 September 2009

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BUY Zithromax ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION, Bon jour, mes canards. Paris may be a fading memory, Baltimore, Maryland. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Zithromax 50mg, but I will try and catch you up on the last few days of the Cahiers Parisiens.

Maybe it didn't come through, but I didn't talk much with people while I was in Paris, buy no prescription Zithromax online. Zithromax withdrawal, This is not that unusual. I work either from home or at a desk marooned at the other end of the floor from everyone else; I don't often go out to bars either home or in Europe; and in general, buy Zithromax without prescription, San Diego, California. Dallas, Texas. San Antonio, Texas, I am a misanthropic sour puss. This helps out in the writing game, Zithromax snort, alcohol iteraction, 0.4mg, 0.5mg, 1mg, 2.5mg, but isn't so much use in other places.

But...well, the last few days in Paris I actually had some interactions with people.

The first couple happened on Sunday last, order Zithromax from mexican pharmacy. I went up to the Canal St, BUY Zithromax ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION. Zithromax pharmacy, Martin, which is a hip spot to hang out nowadays, Zithromax over the counter. Buy cheap Zithromax, The canal is indeed quite lovely, and they close off motor traffic along it on the weekends, purchase Zithromax online. Order Zithromax online overnight delivery no prescription, I stopped at a little cafe (amusingly, when I asked for the menu, buy Zithromax online no prescription, El Paso, Texas. Washington, D.C. Seattle, Washington, the waitress brought an enormous blackboard with the specials written on it out to my table.) While I roasted in the sun I wrote the first draft of my long screed below. (I had what amounted to a mess of egg over good country ham with some sort of vinegar sauce--it was fabulous.)

After brunch I walked over towards Buttes Chaumont park, buy Zithromax no prescription, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Las Vegas, Nevada, one of the gems of non-tourist Paris, a magnificent landscape of hills, where can i buy Zithromax online, Købe Zithromax online, αγοράζουν online Zithromax, crags, and a lovely lake, rx free Zithromax. Here's a picture of the grotto in the center of the park: BUY Zithromax ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION, However, on the way over to the park, I had my first experience with...Latin lovers.

I was crossing the street when a young Tunisian guy (as he told me) came up to me to tell me how pretty I was. Order Zithromax online c.o.d, Which was nice of him, but I kept walking, Zithromax 200mg. Chicago, Illinois. Houston, Texas, He followed me, and we struck up a bit of a conversation in French, where can i order Zithromax without prescription. Order Zithromax no prescription, Admittedly, I was a bit lonely, Jacksonville, Florida, Columbus, Ohio, Boston, Massachusetts. Charlotte, Carolina, which let me fall into the trap of talking with this guy, something I wouldn't have done in English, Zithromax 1000mg, 2000mg. Japan, craiglist, ebay, hcl, And of course, he got a bit grabby as the conversation progressed, Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee. Portland, Oregon. I did finally manage to extricate myself (after a bunch of "arretes" and "ma relationship est grave!") but it left me slightly shaken, BUY Zithromax ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION. Zithromax from canadian pharmacy, And of course this all flows into my background as a trans woman: should I be worried because I don't have the experience that would have helped me learn the skills to deflect guys like this, or relieved because I haven't spent my whole life deflecting guys like this?

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And oh. On Monday, I went to pay my respects at the Louvre (you have to see the Mona Lisa while you're in Paris...you just do.) And as I was walking to the Metro, another guy wanted to "make my acquaintance." This time I just said I didn't speak French.

But the best story has to be when I was walking home from the Louvre on Monday. BUY Zithromax ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION, I passed a store I had previously seen, and just had to snap a pic, because...well, because the sign is a rather weak joke:

The name of the store is Les Bonnes Compines which in French means something approximately like "The Good Girlfriends." Fair enough...but it's written with out the space between Les and Bonnes, making it look a bit like...something else in English.

As I said, a weak joke. I'm not proud

Like most of the stores in that region of Paris, it's a wholesaler--I had basically landed in the Parisian garment district, with "Ne vente pas au detail" (wholesale only) in almost every window. And for some reason, when I took the pic, a woman in a telephone booth (yes, they still have them there) started to scream at me.

I couldn't follow everything she said, but it was mostly about how I shouldn't take a pic. I tried to explain, but only got as far as Parce que...("because...") before she started to scream again. She even spit on the ground. Eventually I just walked away...I guess she thought I was some sort of corporate spy or something.

Shows what you get for acting like a tourist; I should know better.

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21 September 2009

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Plus I discovered that I could read the Declaration of the Rights of Man in French, BUY Nizoral ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION. Buy cheap Nizoral, Score one for me.

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Saturday I had a real treat...well, Nizoral 5mg, Buy Nizoral online cod, not an unproblematic treat. But you've probably come to expect that of me, purchase Nizoral online no prescription. Purchase Nizoral online, I went to the Musée Guimet, over by the Trocadero, Nizoral for sale. This is the main Asian art museum in Paris, BUY Nizoral ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Phoenix, Arizona, I didn't go straight there, acutally: I had a large lunch nearby first, order Nizoral online overnight delivery no prescription, Nizoral from canadian pharmacy, which included a desert of profiteroles--cream puffs stuffed with vanilla ice cream and drenched in chocolate sause--my favorite desert in the world, and something that it is almost impossible to get (at least, Nizoral 100mg, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Las Vegas, Nevada, impossible to get done right) back in the states:

Anyway, the museum really has an excellent collection, buy generic Nizoral, Reasons to buy Nizoral online, from all parts of Asia. The India collection was quite good; and as someone that has been interested in Shiva since my days researching Indian mythology, buy Nizoral online no prescription, I was happy to see this marvelous bronze of Shiva Nataraja, the Lord of the Dance:

They have an excellent Cambodian section. As I've been to Cambodia this year, it was quite pleasant at first to reacquaint myself with the amazing and monumental Khmer art--to see one of the gently smiling, inexplicable faces of the Bayon silently contemplating me again, to look at a marvelously preserved naga, to see a beautiful bas-relief apsara.

But something began to bother me. When I would read the labels to see where these things came from, I began to feel...uncomfortable. That's because I've actually been BUY Nizoral ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION, to those places; I've seen the elephant terrace, the royal palace, the Bayon of Angkor Thom. And given that Cambodia was a French colony for ninety years, I thought it was a pretty good bet that they didn't ask if they could take any of those things.

This isn't a new issue, of course: the Louvre has the best egyptology collection outside of Egypt, because of Napoleon's conquests there; the British plundered the Greek world to build their amazing collections; even within Europe itself museum collections are often the plunder of war.

Still, the enormous gap of wealth, privilege and power between the colonial nations of the nineteenth century and the countries they subjugated seems to lend an air of disquietude that doesn't linger over the internecine push and shove of Europe's long shabby history of warfare. Because they essentially stole these things from people who found it difficult or impossible to resist. Stole, and left no recompense, and often no regrets. Even the great humanist Andre Malraux got into the act, trying to steal artifacts and whole bas-reliefs from the newly-rediscovered and beautifully-preserved Banteay Srei in Cambodia.

Of course, it's nice that people in other places in the world can see these things, and it's good to have some of them safe in a museum--the Angkor artifacts suffered during the reign of the Khmer Rouge. But that still doesn't make up for the crime of taking them in the first place. I mean...they could have just asked.

In any case, maybe it's appropriate that this guy, donated by the women of the United States in the memory of Lafayette, should be right outside the museum:

(Yeah, that's good ol' George himself.).

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18 September 2009

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BUY Zebeta ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION, Last night I was having a somewhat dismal (in Paris, that means it was actually decent) meal over on République when I think I saw the mostly iconic image of 21st century Paris I've ever seen: a guy on a rented bicycle, smoking a cigarette as he rode down the boulevards.

Paris, of course, has an uncomfortable relationship with the modern world. It retains it's preeminent place in the world of fashion, Where can i buy cheapest Zebeta online, is a major political and business center for Europe, and remains the center of gravity of the francophone world. And, kjøpe Zebeta online, bestill Zebeta online, of course, Indianapolis, Indiana, San Francisco, California, it is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe.

But so much of that comes from its curious sense of being frozen in time: the perfection of the nineteenth-century vision of Good City Life, the architecture frozen in place, the parks looking almost identitical to the images on the canvases of the Musée d'Orsay, order Zebeta from mexican pharmacy. It's static the way New York, Zebeta over the counter, my other favorite city in the world, never is: New York reinvents itself every day, in a furious pace of rebuilding, Zebeta 75mg, modifying, Australia, uk, us, usa, reconsidering, reconfiguring. Paris sedately glides by, Zebeta 150mg, asleep in the long belle rêve of Haussman.

Sometimes I think only Paris' status as the capital of a major country in Europe keeps it a living city. That, and the changing face of the French world.

I am staying in the Oberkampf district, on the northeastern edge of the city, BUY Zebeta ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION. Zebeta 625mg,650mg, I'm guessing it's going through a gentrification cycle; it's close to the Marais, the former Jewish ghetto that has become not only the heart of gay and lesbian Paris, but the home of most forward-looking fashion designers, where can i find Zebeta online. It's an area of former factories being transformed into a residential district.

Out here, Detroit, Michigan, San Jose, California, not quite in the periphery (let alone the banlieues, the suburbs that ring Paris), I still see more people of color than you do in central Paris, where can i order Zebeta without prescription, tourist Paris: Africans and Berbers from the old colonies, El Paso, Texas. Washington, D.C. Seattle, Washington, Indians, Vietnamese, Chinese, købe Zebeta online, αγοράζουν online Zebeta, Arabs. Jacksonville, Florida, Columbus, Ohio, It makes me homesick and feel at home at the same time, resembling my ethnically mixed neighborhood in the Great American Metropolis. (Also a rapidly gentrifying area with great restaurants.)

I won't rehearse for you the litany of troubles the changing population of France has brought on: the difficulties in assimilating different ethnicities into the French self-conception, Zebeta 125mg, the poverty and racism and rioting in the banlieues, New York. Los Angeles, California, the fact that the President of France once threatened retributary violence on those same rioters, before he was elected. BUY Zebeta ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION, France bans the veil at school, championing the cause of secularism and human rights, and we are left with profoundly mixed feelings about exactly what liberties are being abridged, and who has the right to do that. Etre Muslulman en France, buy Zebeta without prescription, screams the headline of one magazine I see advertised: being Muslim in France. Zebeta pharmacy, What is it like, I, they, buy Zebeta from canada, wonder, Buy Zebeta from mexico, to be marooned in a culture that regards you cautiously, obliged to help you because of the mythic ideals of its own past, but not sure how to come to terms with being more than it was in the past: plural, Zebeta coupon, multiple, 0.4mg, 0.5mg, 1mg, 2.5mg, different. How it is to be Other until that happens, if it ever does.

I could claim some parcel of this terrain, canada, mexico, india, as both a woman and trans, Zebeta price, but I really doubt it's the same: here, as in America, the swath my privilege as a white, farmacia Zebeta baratos, Zebeta online kaufen, able-bodied, Zebeta withdrawal, educated person cuts through most hindrances.

Still: Tuesday night I went to an aikido class. The dojo has a very different style compared to my dojo back home: much harder, more concerned with proper form than movement, Zebeta 1000mg, 2000mg. A good experience, but too much like my original aikido dojo for my taste.

I've talked about my French being better on this trip, but the truth is, it's still very weak, comparatively, BUY Zebeta ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION. I can read it passably well (today I was reading the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" in French and getting most of it), Where can i buy Zebeta online, but anyone who speaks even moderately fast will have me in the dust. So, when the teacher would explain the technique, 400mg, 450mg, I would be...lost. Zebeta in cats, dogs, children, I have almost no vocabulary for body parts: no word for wrist, barely able to recognize "leg" or "knee." I would get a word in every so often, and occasionally a general sense, Zebeta 800mg, 875mg, 900mg, but for the most part I'd be lost, Zebeta 250mg, and have to rely only on what I could see.

Which is the best way to learn, actually. But in those moments...I was the other, online buy Zebeta without a prescription. I was the one lost in a sea of incomprehension, Boston, Massachusetts. Charlotte, Carolina, struggling to use all my wits to figure things out, almost mute, ignorent. (There are times I grow so frustrated with how I speak, because my mind leaps so far out in front of what I actually know how to say: and I know I must sound stupid, with my mangled syntax and wonky accent.) And this is a valuable lesson to learn, to hold to myself the next time I get frustrated with someone else.

We never learn more about our privilege than when we are called on it. Or made to see the other side of it.

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16 September 2009

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The show has some really good paintings, and they are really beautiful--though I agree a bit with Michelangelo's critique that the Venetian painters placed color over drawing skill, farmacia Galantamine baratos, Galantamine online kaufen. Where can i find Galantamine online, (It's okay; you can make the same criticism of my favorite painting in the world, which has some awkward bits--look at the way the arm kind of hangs out there in the foreground.) And as I walked through the exhibit, kjøpe Galantamine online, bestill Galantamine online, Indianapolis, Indiana, San Francisco, California, two thoughts came immediately to mind:

A) These guys painted real women! Take a look at the centerpiece of the exhibit, one of Titian's most famous paintings, Galantamine 50mg, Buy Galantamine no prescription, Danaë:

It's astonishing to contrast Danaë with media images today--her breasts, hips, Galantamine over the counter, Galantamine price, thighs, arms--and look, order Galantamine no prescription, Buy no prescription Galantamine online, she even has a bit of stomach. And she's a gorgeous, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Phoenix, Arizona, idealized image of femininity; this is what women were supposed to look like.

In fact, she looks a lot like Lizzi Miller...the plus-size (size 14) model:

Although she's hardly idealized, at least by some people:

So what do you think. Does Lizzi Miller look fantastic or is this lowering standards for stick thinness industrywide?

(For a little more intelligent discussion, see this Below the Belt post.)

However, my appreciation for this fact was kinda mitigate by my next observation...

B) This exhibit is a little...rapey

OK, a lot rapey.

I mean, the signature painting of the exhibit--the afore-referenced Danaë--depicts, well, the rape of a woman by Zeus. BUY Galantamine ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION, Oh, and did I mention that she had been kidnapped by her father and locked up to prevent her from having a kid? I know the Greeks weren't really big on happy stories, but still.

In fact, and I guess sort of to it's credit, the exhibit has a whole couple of rooms about the ways nudes are depicted in the arts of these masters. But even that was a bit problematic: wall to wall naked women, offering themselves up to men, or the male gaze, or alone by themselves (letting you gaze voyeuristically at them.) And in one room, there were five separate treatments of the Rape of Lucretia. Which is a lot of rape to have in one room, even if the paintings themselves are exquisitely decorated.

So that takes me back to French puns.

One of the things you say in French when you are introduced to someone is Ravissante à faire vôtre conaissance. Now, ravissante means ravished; and in French, this is basically only used in the way we use the English word ravishing, that is, beautiful.

But it comes from the same roots and same sense as ravished in English: to take, to carry off...to rape.

So that's why I flipped it around in my post title, one translation of which might be: "to meet you, I am ravished."

I don't mean to say that in French you say that you're raped when you meet people. That's not what it means anymore. But it is an artifact of how rape, how the principles of rape--that a woman's body belongs not to her, but the men who look at her, who can take her--pervades every corner of our culture. You can see it art; you can hear it in language; you can feel it in the way men look at you, or in the long lists that people send you telling you how you can avoid being assaulted--because assault is an implacable force of nature, not the acts of people with the moral capacity to make decisions.

But hey, don't believe me. Just ask Tucker Max.

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14 September 2009

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BUY Desyrel ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION, So yesterday I managed to do a few feminist things while here in Paris--both homages, of a sort.

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