The Weird World of Gay Rights

In Britain, starting in a few months, gay Anglican priests will be able to enter into civil unions with their same-sex partners...but not have sex with them.

Somehow, this just seems to violate the spirit of the whole thing.

And, in more pressing questions, would a recipe for raspberry fudge sandwich cookies be totally ruined if I used blackberry jam instead of raspberry?

On the goals of role-playing

So, I'm reading this book that julianyap loaned me, called Confederates in the Attic, by Tony Horwitz. It's a very interesting discussion of modern Southern attitudes towards the Confederacy, and it focuses particularly on Civil War reenactors, or, as they apparently prefer to be called, "living historians." (This makes me wonder what I am - a dead historian?)

One of the most startling aspects of their comments was the repeated emphasis on how one of their favorite parts of re-enactment was getting back to traditional gender roles, where "men could be men and women could be women."

( Thoughts on gender roles in LARPs )

I'm curious as to how other people feel about the idea of embracing trad gender roles, and whether this is a desirable goal, and how you feel about gender roles in more fantasy-oriented LARPs, both from the male and female perspectives.