On Oct 18, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Besides, Iran itself is not unlike a femme fatale. She is at times
> cruel, but ravishing all the same, so well endowed is she with
> nature's gifts. She will probably stab you in the back at the very
> first opportunity, and yet she stirs the flesh of all men and women,
> whether they are on the left, right, or center, who are politically
> ambitious, like Chavez, HRC, and Putin. Yes, she really has a way of
> making you believe that, if you have her, you can, perhaps, rule the
> world. Who will have her, and on what terms? Or will she just play
> them all and seduce them into getting her what she wants, giving up
> little in return? That's the Great Game in which she is both a
> ruthless player and the most precious prize.
Nothing Orientalist about this, eh?
But why femme? Why not some sort of trans- or post-gender seducer?