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Things I Imagine Lyndon Baines Johnson Might Have Called Me Had We Met Prior To My Transition: Part Of A Series Of Maladaptive Fantasies, "Fawning to Cope," and Sublimating Violence With Folksiness

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Things I Imagine Lyndon Baines Johnson Might Have Called Me Had We Met Prior To My Transition: Part Of A Series Of Maladaptive Fantasies, "Fawning to Cope," and Sublimating Violence With Folksiness

Daniel Lavery
Aug 12, 2020
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Things I Imagine Lyndon Baines Johnson Might Have Called Me Had We Met Prior To My Transition: Part Of A Series Of Maladaptive Fantasies, "Fawning to Cope," and Sublimating Violence With Folksiness

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  • plucky

  • feisty

  • a real firestarter

  • a real whip

  • little bit of a pistol, fellas

  • a fine gal

  • your relationship to adorableness displays a fine manly vigor

  • Son, I know I’m not a good man. Can you help?

  • Walk me through this thing of yours about Subway sandwiches, young man. What am I missing here?

  • let me explain earthiness to you in a way that’s gonna resolve all this

  • this one’s got pluck, boys

  • There’s a better way to relate to violent male authority than avoidance and forced-proximity, and I’m going to share that with you right n—

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Jendi
Aug 12, 2020Liked by Daniel Lavery

"Sublimating violence with folksiness" is on brand for evangelicals

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Nell
Aug 12, 2020

So my granddad was the White House dentist during LBJ’s administration, and now I want to send you the one (1) story I ever heard from him about it. It displays some classic Johnson behavior.

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