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So I have this class. Renaissance representations of same-sex desire.

Tomorrow, I have to go up in front of my class and talk to them about sex changes. As you might expect for a class such as this one, everyone there is much, much cooler than me. I quake. Anyway, sex changes. Many people in Renaissance Europe believed that women could spontaneously sex-change to men (these were probably actually cases of intersex people where that only became clear at puberty), but of course it couldn't happen the other way around, because a less perfect form can turn into a more perfect form, but a more perfect form can't become less perfect.

This class might even beat Old English in terms of the absolutely useless but fascinating information I'm acquiring.