20 thoughts on “Libertarian Convention Coverage at Reason”

1. Brian Holtz May 8, 2012 at 10:04

   I don’t have an archive of past Starchild outfits. For my past efforts at convention levity, see 2010, 2008 (pdf file), and LPCA 2006.
2. Thomas L. Knapp May 8, 2012 at 10:23

   I don’t think of what Starchild does as “cross-dressing.”

   That term implies a person firmly attached to one gender role “acting out” as another gender role.

   Starchild is never someone pretending to be someone else. He just happens to be many things, and expressing one or more of those things at any given time in his fashion choices.
3. Brian Holtz May 8, 2012 at 10:57

   Dictionary.com defines “cross-dress” as “dress in the clothes of the other sex”, but I will defer to Tom’s expertise in this area.
4. Robert Capozzi May 8, 2012 at 11:13

   Perhaps StarChild is post-gender?…
5. Thomas L. Knapp May 8, 2012 at 11:16

   Brian,

   Dictionary definitions are … normative. That’s what makes them useful in most cases.

   Starchild is … not normal. That’s what makes the dictionary definition not especially useful, and what makes him so great.
6. Robert Capozzi May 8, 2012 at 11:26

   5 tk: Dictionary definitions are … normative. That’s what makes them useful in most cases.

   me: I’m dancing in the streets about this statement!
7. Jill Pyeatt May 8, 2012 at 11:28

   I prefer to think of Starchild as “all-gender”. Maybe he just feels more like one of the genders on each particular day.
8. Jill Pyeatt May 8, 2012 at 11:34

   Wow, Brian, what an excellent compilation. I just realized, though, that I never met the Reason reporter who was there. I wish I had! I did visit with the other reporter, but I was so tired by the end of the convention (as were most of us), that I’ve completely forgotten his name or who he worked for. It was something “Weekly”, I think.
9. LibertarianGirl May 8, 2012 at 12:25

   why does everyone keep blaming “wrights people” for both Sarwarks speech ,come on Reason get your facts straight
10. Mark Hilgenberg May 8, 2012 at 12:52

    @9 Exactly, our delegation voted NOTA at one point 8-1, none of the NOTA votes had a thing to do with Wrights.
11. Gary Chartier May 8, 2012 at 12:56

    Thanks for this, Brian.
12. Carol Moore May 8, 2012 at 13:01

    Hmmmm…. maybe I should start dressing up so people will know I’m the female starchild 🙂 Including being snotty and contentious like some horny high testosterone 20 something male…
13. Thomas L. Knapp May 8, 2012 at 13:51

    CM@12,

    “ncluding being snotty and contentious like some horny high testosterone 20 something male”

    Oh, you’ve pretty much got that one down pat.
14. Carol Moore May 8, 2012 at 14:22

    I don’t know where I got this from, but here it is – CSPAN FULL COVERAGE
    http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/305766-1

    @Tom: Yup, if you have to put up with Starchild’s femininish side you have to put up with MANLY MAN side. 🙂
15. Carol Moore May 8, 2012 at 14:24

    That’s MY manly man side. I could go into the astrology of it or the residual effect of being a macho guy killed in WWII who had came back as a repressed Catholic Female for 16 years or so. (Til she read Ayn Rand and saw the Beatles.) But I’ll save it for my Best Selling Bio.
16. Kevin Knedler May 9, 2012 at 06:53

    @ # 10
    Agree, I really do NOT believe Mr. Wrights initiated the “NOTA” votes. I asked him, he told me, and I believe he is truthful.
17. George Phillies on Oregon May 9, 2012 at 09:11

    There were a whole bunch of very high grade coroplast signs. Someone organized the NOTA drive in advance. You might inquire in the Texas delegation if they are willing to talk.
18. Nicholas Sarwark May 9, 2012 at 10:19

    @17: There were people who printed “Elect No One to the LNC” signs ahead of the convention. I (conspiracy of one) advocated for NOTA for LNC Chair.

    Wrights was not involved or interested in being Chair. And I didn’t know who printed the signs until late Sunday evening.
19. paulie May 9, 2012 at 19:59

    The two exceptions were articles that featured an LNC at-large candidate who caught attention with his cross-dressing, and a Judicial Committee candidate who did so with a drinking game. Both were elected.

    More importantly, both write here at IPR 🙂
20. paulie May 9, 2012 at 20:13

    Reason’s summary

    http://reason.com/archives/2012/05/09/a-new-dawn-for-the-libertarian-party