It was a tongue in cheek joke based on common mis-perceptions and weird happenstances all around. Just me juxtaposing ideas.
The pope was actually a Nazi as a kid.
He indicated that Bob Dylan is a prophet; "the wrong kind". Bob Dylan has always insisted that he is not a prophet. The joke there is that Bob Dylan still has fans who worship him as a prophet. I just thought the Pope's comment helps to perpetuate that misconception. And it makes no sense that a 21st Century Catholic leader would think that a singer-songwriter is a prophet. That part is just weird on its' own.
Bob Dylan is Jewish, so it makes it is a very strange thing to have an ex-Nazi knock a Jewish entertainer. The irony there is due to the fact that it is commonly perceived that WWII was the end of Nazism, however, we will have connections to that period for several generations to come. I am sure, however, that the Pope's comments were not meant to be anti semitic. He was probably just thinking that people should be reminded to not follow false idols.
Another humorous aspect is that when Dylan was coming up in the sixties, the Pope's generation was the target of the younger generation. Let's face it, that battle is long over. As usual, everybody lost.
The 'popetato' comment is just me playing with words. I like to play with words, how they sound, what they mean.
The 'popetato in drag' comment comes from the irony that, if I have this right, the whole custom of wearing robes comes down through political and religious leaders in olden times trying to appropriate transgendered practices of previous religions in order to more easily bring the masses away from their old traditions and practices. I have to admit that this comment was laced with anger on my part. We Trans and Gay people (in the old world) did not become oppressed until maybe several thousand years ago. The reason for our oppression is to keep the downtrodden masses from uniting. As long as the general culture disapproves of us and keeps us and other minorities invisible or 'in our place' we will never achieve the peace and security that are our basic human rights. I guess I kind of resent a figurehead who publicly wears robes - whereas we would be jailed or worse - and who will not capitulate the fact that we are people too. People who deserve to express their gender as they please and who have every right to marry any other consenting adult.
I don't hate anybody. Sometimes, I am angry at what they represent. I never make a statement out of hate, I hope.
I am not trying to offend you. I am trying to make sense out of the world around me. I apologize for the speech. I'll check this post later in order to fix grammatical errors.
As somebody once said - (more or less)
"I mean no harm,nor put fault
on anyone who lives in a vault"
I'm not trying to be flip. I really do mean no harm.
Love,
Rebecca
