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Feb. 26th, 2011 02:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* RM found, how you can help with the disaster in New Zealand: http://phaetonschariot.livejournal.com/162743.html
* Just after the US evacuated the trapped citizens, we announced sanctions and are freezing Gadhafi and family's assets. There is talk about a crimes against humanity trial at the Hague. Libya's UN delegation has resigned.
* Wisconsin state Assembly opened the Union stripping bill to vote in the middle of the night for a few seconds and only let enough people vote to pass it, closing the vote before a third of the people could cast their vote. Apparently this is legal. Wow, the Wisconsin Republicans really hate Democracy. It seems to me all elected representatives present shot get a chance to vote for or against a bill, instead of only taking the votes from one party. I guuess that's old fashioned of me.
* A Fox poll shows 51% against stripping the unions of their collective bargaining rights. That's the right wing pool. The non-partisan Gallup poll shows 61%.
* The right wing in Kansas wants covenant marriage, because apparently small government means the state forcing people to stay married when they don't want to be.
* In Nebraska they are trying to legalize the murder of abortion providers as "justifiable homicide." "Pro-Life" is a lie. That looks very pro-death to me. If you are in favour of making hunting people legal you are not "pro-life."
* tulaq found, "Ga. Law Could Give Death Penalty for Miscarriages:" http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/02/miscarriage-death-penalty-georgia
* I do not understand why we as a supposedly civilized 21st century nation can't agree that women are fully human, alive, and should not be killed for having heterosexual sex. Why is this even still a debate?
* "Butch isn’t ugly:" http://lettersfromtitan.com/2011/02/25/butch-isnt-ugly/
* Thoughts related to the above:
1. I am fascinated by genedering. It's so culturally determined and hard to pin down. Looking at the pictures of the female bodied folks that passed as male soldiers in the civil war, there's this huge mix. some, pass completely to modern eyes, others are clearly short haired women in trousers. To folks of the 1860's short hair+trousers means man. To modern American eyes, there are all these other clues we search for, some of which I can't even figure out. On gaia, people frequently miss gender female character with short hair and male characters with long, ignoring other clues, such as secondary sexual characteristics or costume. I wonder why that is. Hair length is fashion, not innate.
2. I do not understand why pointing out that Rachel Maddow is gay and "looks like a man" is considered a valid way to refute facts she has uncovered in her journalism in so many circles. Isn't truth independent of the sexual orientation and gender presentation? shouldn't journalistic truth be measured against facts instead of stereotypical gender expectation? It seems wildly illogical to me. I mean, how is the sexual availability of the speaker to the observer relevant to the objective truth of the words? This doesn't compute to me at all.
* tulaq found, Conservative psychology: http://www.truth-out.org/what-conservatives-really-want67907 and http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12395
* Supernatural:
That was really meta. I can't decide if it's clever or shark jumping. I loved the characterization of Misha in this, and the acting chops involved in flipping back and forth like that. Why oh why must the villain be black again. Come on guys, season 6. Can't we change it up a little diversity wise? It's been ages since we've had POC allies or a strong woman on the Winchester side.
Grrr!
* Just after the US evacuated the trapped citizens, we announced sanctions and are freezing Gadhafi and family's assets. There is talk about a crimes against humanity trial at the Hague. Libya's UN delegation has resigned.
* Wisconsin state Assembly opened the Union stripping bill to vote in the middle of the night for a few seconds and only let enough people vote to pass it, closing the vote before a third of the people could cast their vote. Apparently this is legal. Wow, the Wisconsin Republicans really hate Democracy. It seems to me all elected representatives present shot get a chance to vote for or against a bill, instead of only taking the votes from one party. I guuess that's old fashioned of me.
* A Fox poll shows 51% against stripping the unions of their collective bargaining rights. That's the right wing pool. The non-partisan Gallup poll shows 61%.
* The right wing in Kansas wants covenant marriage, because apparently small government means the state forcing people to stay married when they don't want to be.
* In Nebraska they are trying to legalize the murder of abortion providers as "justifiable homicide." "Pro-Life" is a lie. That looks very pro-death to me. If you are in favour of making hunting people legal you are not "pro-life."
* tulaq found, "Ga. Law Could Give Death Penalty for Miscarriages:" http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/02/miscarriage-death-penalty-georgia
* I do not understand why we as a supposedly civilized 21st century nation can't agree that women are fully human, alive, and should not be killed for having heterosexual sex. Why is this even still a debate?
* "Butch isn’t ugly:" http://lettersfromtitan.com/2011/02/25/butch-isnt-ugly/
* Thoughts related to the above:
1. I am fascinated by genedering. It's so culturally determined and hard to pin down. Looking at the pictures of the female bodied folks that passed as male soldiers in the civil war, there's this huge mix. some, pass completely to modern eyes, others are clearly short haired women in trousers. To folks of the 1860's short hair+trousers means man. To modern American eyes, there are all these other clues we search for, some of which I can't even figure out. On gaia, people frequently miss gender female character with short hair and male characters with long, ignoring other clues, such as secondary sexual characteristics or costume. I wonder why that is. Hair length is fashion, not innate.
2. I do not understand why pointing out that Rachel Maddow is gay and "looks like a man" is considered a valid way to refute facts she has uncovered in her journalism in so many circles. Isn't truth independent of the sexual orientation and gender presentation? shouldn't journalistic truth be measured against facts instead of stereotypical gender expectation? It seems wildly illogical to me. I mean, how is the sexual availability of the speaker to the observer relevant to the objective truth of the words? This doesn't compute to me at all.
* tulaq found, Conservative psychology: http://www.truth-out.org/what-conservatives-really-want67907 and http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12395
* Supernatural:
That was really meta. I can't decide if it's clever or shark jumping. I loved the characterization of Misha in this, and the acting chops involved in flipping back and forth like that. Why oh why must the villain be black again. Come on guys, season 6. Can't we change it up a little diversity wise? It's been ages since we've had POC allies or a strong woman on the Winchester side.
Grrr!
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Date: 2011-02-26 08:54 pm (UTC)I suspect the tendency to misgender them may have to do with its onlineness and wishful thinking people online always seem to be hunting for female users to hit on. Every so often my 'Second Life' avatar is mistaken for female by some straight guy who is randomly hitting on people. This is hilarious, since my 'Second Life' avatar has a beard (and not a painted-on one, but a thick heavy one) and a distinctly male name that is relatively common and almost exactly the same in five languages. The only explanation that I comes to mind is that he doesn't have a giant torso and is set to be my RL height (short, but not freakishly so) in a world where the starting height is quite tall but newcomers naturally believe it to be average. Since most people want to be taller than average, the average height on SL appears to be about 7 feet, making my avatar positively elfin.
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Date: 2011-02-27 04:10 am (UTC)