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Mar. 17th, 2012 05:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* A round up of anti-women legislation including several bills allowing doctors to lie to female patients, one requiring doctors to lie to female patients, several compulsory medical rape laws, laws requiring women to tell their bosses they are on birth control and allowing the boss to fire them for being sexually active in their private lives, etc.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#46766656
* The bastard that filmed Tyler Clementi with his boyfriend as part of bullying his roommate for being gay, was convicted today. Penalties can be up to a decade in prison. I'll let you know how sentencing goes when I do.
* I know I've said this before, but free speech protects from government censorship. It does not require anyone to pay to hear you speak, nor does it protect people from natural consequences of free speech. The yanking of sponsorship from the Limbaugh show does not constitute government censorship; rather people are exercising their right not to pay for his speech. This is a consequence of Limbaugh's free speech, not government squashing discourse.
* I tried to make this a get stuff done day, but failed miserably. I did pick up my meds, do dishes and make soup from scratch. This insomnia is making it incredibly hard to function. On the upside, the sun angle is now suc that it remains to dark in my room to read during the day without the fish light, I can now look out the window and differentiate between 10PM and 10 AM. This is much less disorienting. Similarly, the living room scrim means we now have natural light in the living room, which also cuts down on the disorientation of living in a cave. I really, really, really need to do paperwork this weekend and bureaucracy next week.
* rm found, A cool interviewish thing with Rachel Maddow: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/04/proust-questionnaire-rachel-maddow-msnbc
* Yet another reason to love Anderson Cooper: "The only thing I think about less than a vasectomy is watching a basketball tournament." He knows we know. ;) : http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2012/03/17/ac-ridiculist-pizza-and-vasectomy.cnn
* Christ Almighty: http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/1056395.html
* I know this is nit picking, but trust me, a dancer who is serious enough about dancing that other ballet dancers are teasing her about her fame would not be out shopping for used toe shoes. Those things wear out super fast if you are any good. The reason why should be obvious if you think about the stress toe dancing puts on the shoes. The stuff they use to stiffen them is essentially holding that person up as they are doing a really vigorous activity that puts them under random extreme pressure. No shoe can hold up to that for long, so they wear out and get replaced over and over. You don't share shoes and you don't buy used ones, because they'd be near useless or already useless from whoever wore them first. Yes, the shoes they were using tonight were single use per customer only and uncannily attractive, but my point is, the ballerina wouldn't have been shopping for used shoes.
* Bwahahahaha: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/19403923960/just-a-thought
* "Call Me Madam: A Fashion History:" http://www.wwd.com/eye/people/call-me-madam-5797944/slideshow#/slideshow/article/5797944/0
I wish they'd stuck to real ones instead of wandering into the fictional in the middle.
* Three cheers for Discount Armageddon debuting 35th on the NY Times Bestseller list!
* Non-binary Survey needs participants (op, non-op, thinking about transition all wanted): http://neutrois.me/2012/03/14/non-binary-genderqueer-transition-survey/
Warning: There are separate MT* and FT* pages. You will have to flip past the one that doesn't apply.
* Imagine Gender as a planet: http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz5z3uKZk51qizfh0o1_r1_1280.jpg
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* The bastard that filmed Tyler Clementi with his boyfriend as part of bullying his roommate for being gay, was convicted today. Penalties can be up to a decade in prison. I'll let you know how sentencing goes when I do.
* I know I've said this before, but free speech protects from government censorship. It does not require anyone to pay to hear you speak, nor does it protect people from natural consequences of free speech. The yanking of sponsorship from the Limbaugh show does not constitute government censorship; rather people are exercising their right not to pay for his speech. This is a consequence of Limbaugh's free speech, not government squashing discourse.
* I tried to make this a get stuff done day, but failed miserably. I did pick up my meds, do dishes and make soup from scratch. This insomnia is making it incredibly hard to function. On the upside, the sun angle is now suc that it remains to dark in my room to read during the day without the fish light, I can now look out the window and differentiate between 10PM and 10 AM. This is much less disorienting. Similarly, the living room scrim means we now have natural light in the living room, which also cuts down on the disorientation of living in a cave. I really, really, really need to do paperwork this weekend and bureaucracy next week.
* rm found, A cool interviewish thing with Rachel Maddow: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/04/proust-questionnaire-rachel-maddow-msnbc
* Yet another reason to love Anderson Cooper: "The only thing I think about less than a vasectomy is watching a basketball tournament." He knows we know. ;) : http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2012/03/17/ac-ridiculist-pizza-and-vasectomy.cnn
* Christ Almighty: http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/1056395.html
* I know this is nit picking, but trust me, a dancer who is serious enough about dancing that other ballet dancers are teasing her about her fame would not be out shopping for used toe shoes. Those things wear out super fast if you are any good. The reason why should be obvious if you think about the stress toe dancing puts on the shoes. The stuff they use to stiffen them is essentially holding that person up as they are doing a really vigorous activity that puts them under random extreme pressure. No shoe can hold up to that for long, so they wear out and get replaced over and over. You don't share shoes and you don't buy used ones, because they'd be near useless or already useless from whoever wore them first. Yes, the shoes they were using tonight were single use per customer only and uncannily attractive, but my point is, the ballerina wouldn't have been shopping for used shoes.
* Bwahahahaha: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/19403923960/just-a-thought
* "Call Me Madam: A Fashion History:" http://www.wwd.com/eye/people/call-me-madam-5797944/slideshow#/slideshow/article/5797944/0
I wish they'd stuck to real ones instead of wandering into the fictional in the middle.
* Three cheers for Discount Armageddon debuting 35th on the NY Times Bestseller list!
* Non-binary Survey needs participants (op, non-op, thinking about transition all wanted): http://neutrois.me/2012/03/14/non-binary-genderqueer-transition-survey/
Warning: There are separate MT* and FT* pages. You will have to flip past the one that doesn't apply.
* Imagine Gender as a planet: http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz5z3uKZk51qizfh0o1_r1_1280.jpg
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Date: 2012-03-20 09:39 pm (UTC)I feel like I'm living in a prequel to "The Handmaiden's Tale" by Margret Atwood.
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Date: 2012-03-21 03:09 am (UTC)Even more chilling, a couple of years ago a short story came out in... either Asimov's or S&SF where the Us became a theocracy and they were executing women in arenas for the TV for ever having used reproductive health services. They were killing women over proceedures for decades previously, scanning old medical records for lists of names. It looks less and less like science fiction by the day.