Gay Pride 2012, who is next to come out? The Dutch army and the National Bank (DNB) are only a few official institutions that participate with a boat of their own in the yearly Canal Parade of Gay Pride Amsterdam. The museum and cultural sector is presented with their own boat (Amsterdam Museum | Bijbels Museum | De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam | EYE/Filmmuseum | FOAM | Hermitage Amsterdam | Het Concertgebouw | Het Nationale Ballet | Joods Historisch Museum | Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest | Museum Van Loon | Nationaal Historisch Museum | Nederlands Bureau voor Toerisme en Congressen | Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest | Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder | Rijksmuseum | Scheepvaartmuseum | Stedelijk Museum | Tassenmuseum Hendrikje | Tropenmuseum | Van Gogh Museum) a never ending list. Even the government has their own (contested) boat - though the prime minister – Rutte – choose to profile himself at a more straight mass party around the corner on the same day as the Canal Parade: ‘Dance Valley’ . A Dutch Hindu boat was a newcomer this year following the trend of Christian, Islam and Jewish gay representation, during an event that seems to aim at embracing ‘the whole’ of Dutch society. But certain key sectors of the Netherlands keep ‘missing the emancipation boat’, fail the institutionalised ‘coming out’: Dutch football business, the Dutch Royal House of Orange (and they have several nice boats ready to take part) and a boat of a section of this society that is thought to consist mainly of macho heteros, the Dutch Mafia. Here is an underworld that should be targeted, stimulated to ‘come out of their closets’. One can already enjoy the vision of a ‘parade of sails’ of hash and cocaine boats chaperoned by armoured speedboats, with the crew dressed in proper t-shirts and sunglassed criminals with their water-pistols doing ‘bang, bang, bang’.
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Gay Pride Canal Parade 2012: who is next to come out?
Posted in Amsterdam World Village, Discrimination, Dutch politics, Emancipation, Sexuality, tagged Canal Parade, Gay Pride 2012 Amsterdam, institutionalisation of emancipation movements on August 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Octave Mirbeau and the turpitudes of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Posted in Economics, Sexuality, tagged class society and sexuality, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Jeanne Moreau, Luis Bunuel, Octave Mirbeau on July 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My morning association reading the news of the release of DSK: Strauss-Kahn and Octave Mirbeau who wrote in the year 1900 the novel ‘Diary of a chambermaid’ (Le Journal d’une femme de chambre) giving voice to a maidservant: “Through her eyes, which perceive the world through keyholes, he shows us the foul-smelling hidden sides of high society, the ‘moral bumps’ of the dominating classes, and the turpitudes of the bourgeois society that he assails. Mirbeau’s story undresses the members of high society of their superficial probity, revealing them in the undergarments of their moral flaws: their hypocrisy and perversions.” (1)
Here we see Strauss-Kanh re-enacting a scene of the novel for filmmaker Bunuel together with Jeanne Moreau, if only DSK had limited himself to shoe-fetishism…
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(1) citation from Wikipedia
Are we too childish to prevent child abuse?
Posted in Amsterdam World Village, Sexuality, tagged child abuse, pedo hysteria, pedophilia on December 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Asphalt-Art in the Dutch dunes at Wassenaarseslag picture taken summer 2010: flames have burned this schablone of peaceful walking into the hot asphalt of the meandering road to the beach, to put everybody in their own protected trajectory: pedestrians and bicycles alike, both having joint access to this path.
As with all pictures there is a new reading of the image, not at all intended by its designers – say three or four decades ago. The new reading = pedophilia… this because yet another case came up of a man misusing his position in a children care center in Amsterdam. This time it is not the Catholic Church… so they must be a tiny bit happy in the Dutch bishops rooms and Rome…about the latest news it is not only “us” misbehaving.
Yes indeed, effects of human desire can be as bad as that and as nice as if in heaven…. Little nude angels are haunting churches and museum walls alike all over Europe for centuries, but innocence has always been hard to protect here on earth. If the sensational news coverage of such criminal behaviour – as now in Amsterdam case – will have any positive effective can be doubted.
How do societies deal with deviance in general? How do they deal with sexual deviance? Children can be endangered both at home and in any institution. We should be so honest at least to recognise such a fact. Maybe we lack time and interest in studying and getting to know our own human behaviour in all its manifestations… Maybe we are too childish to prevent child abuse.
Tuesday December 14th. 2010
”Men and child nurseries a charged combination” is a heading of the Dutch daily “De Volkskrant” today. A comment on a recent case of child abuse by a man working as a child care taker. Gender discrimination is unsubtle introduced by a journalism that tries to wip up an exception to such an extant that it seems to have become the rule.
Bygone are the days of gender emancipation, like the White Childrfen Plan (witte kinderenplan) born from the Amsterdam Provo movment in the mid sixties. I was one of the parents volunteering one or two mornings a week to care for our children in the creche in the Keizersstraat. Later this volunteer roulating system has been taken over by a man, Siem, who has been a fantastic child care taker for several decades (Siem died a few years ago at a too young age)…
The proposed solutions for controlling deviant behaviour now-a-days tend to be of the same order: screening, video cameras, databases. The absurd end of such a pedo-fear driven policy line would be ‘in vitro’ conception of children and gender and age apartheid.



