One thing I noticed in passing, since the subject comes up here and I take my very first look at astroamerica and the deck reviews there, that this Gay tarot review is on average probably four, five, six times lengthier than any review I looked at. Fey, Golden Dawn, Thoth, Fantastical, Cosmic, Hudes, Phantasmagoric, Osho Zen, Rider Waite, Shining Tribe, Transformational, New Orleans Voodoo.. no other tarot seems to have gotten as lengthy a going-over as the Gay tarot. Some of those other decks, I was expecting some equal amount of time and in-depth attention paid to in commentary. But no.
Not Spiral, not Old Path, not Cosmic Tribe, not Connolly, not Cary-Yale.
One that did come about one third as close in thoroughness was the Manara erotic tarot. A certain amount of time & attention spent to describe the cards of that deck. *coughs politely*
But Sacred Rose, 1JJ Swiss, Tarot of Prague (two lines, four sentences to comment on that deck), Universal Marseille.. not many words spent dissecting the symbology of ANY of those decks, to say nothing of such fine-combed critisicm and general waving-about of knowledge about how a tarot illustration *should* look. Or why humans have sex.
I saw no evidence of critiqueing of any other deck on any such "rarified levels".
Could be I missed one of those rarified reviews. I thought any one of the decks I did look at might have deserved at least as close and academic an examination. Must be something about the deck that made it worth all the special attention. Wonder what it could be.
to if you tell those of us who don't know what you are talking about what glaad is and how best to report....
