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huffington post: ken burns homophobically 'forgot' a few things?


...in this latest docudrama:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/the-roosevelts-ken-burns_b_5866998.html

(sorry it ain't clickable, it's why they invented copy & paste)

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The documentary was made to be shown and viewed in junior high and high schools around the country. It was alluded that Eleanor had a relationship with women but never delved into whether it was sexual. As far as FDR was he able to have sex after contracting Polio. It indicated the lower half of his torso was useless. Never heard about that entrapment program in the Navy.

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To clarify, as far as I understand it, his leg muscles were all but useless, hence his need for his painful braces to simulate walking, but I don't recall hearing that his masculine plumbing was in any way affected. I do not believe the impact of his bout of polio was at all the same as the severing of a spinal nerve.

I have seen enough to know I have seen too much. -- ALOTO

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