I guess I am fiscally conservative but liberal in most other things. You want to marry the same gender; you should. It’s none of my damn business as you are both consenting adults. Your womb is none of my damn business. You want to change gender, go right ahead – none of my damn business.
And incidentally, you can reverse that.
I blame Moomins for this. I just realized this.
When my family went to Sweden when I was in third or fourth grade, I was given copies of Jansson’s children books and really, really read them.
Seriously, I know this because I just re-read the first one, and you can tell it was well loved.
I re-read Finn Family Moomintroll after reading a collection of Jansson’s short stories. I realized I totally forgot about the Hemulen. He wears a dress that his aunt left him, and no one cares.
In fact, it is the strangest family, you will ever meet and is so about interspecies dating.
But that’s the Moomins for you – love, togetherness, and adventure!
Jansson plays with ideas of self, of words, of autobiography, with hats.
Harry Potter’s Sorting Hat has nothing I tell you on the Hobgoblin’s hat. Plus the Hobgoblin rides a panther.