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Patty wants a pony. Actually, she needs book recs for our trip!

If you're just scrolling through now, my Maine fury is in the post prior to this.

I wish I could retroactively cancel the subscription I had to Seventeen twenty-five years ago. Why? Oh, you know, transphobia.

Official who refused to perform interracial marriages has resigned. While whining about not being allowed to put his conscience into practice.

Man, it's not just Maine that's all on the "some citizens have more rights than others" bandwagon. Yeah, apparently now we're talking about healthcare reform not applying to legal immigrants.

Emma Thompson has agreed to remove her name from a petition supporting Polanski's release.

Some people I know have received some horrifically bad news. I am sad.

Meanwhile, I'm still behind on my NaNo quota, but I wrote another great chapter yesterday and started another chapter that I really need to finish today, although I am not sure when.

I'm not a fan of modern stuff. In fact, I find this rather ugly, but I can recognize that it's well-done and interesting. Non-driver in Berlin renovates gas station and turns it into a home.

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[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, apparently now we're talking about healthcare reform not applying to legal immigrants.

*STAMPITY*

And yes, it is a bit brutalist, but that renovated gas station is certainly an improvement on the previous lot, and it's been very sensitively done, in keeping with the styles of Berlin Bauhaus.

(By contrast, I recall an old 1930s gas station in my part of the UK that got converted into a cellphone store.)

[newsbean.livejournal.com]

Blocking legal immigrants from getting health care would be a real tragedy for my family. But, I have to say I'm not surprised. With only 8.8% of males and 11% of females in interracial marriages, it's not as though the Republicans have anyone to think of in their families. I was so heartened when Cheney's daughter had an impact on his views, and I felt as though we might actually get somewhere with gay marriage. It had not occurred to me that we might need the same thing for LEGAL immigrants.

[sethg]

Gosh, I feel so much better knowing that many of the people who pick my vegetables and prepare my restaurant meals will continue to go without health insurance.

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

One day my home state may be in the paper for something that's not stupid or horrible or tragic. What kills me is he says he's not a racist, while he's saying things that are racist. "He said from his experience and discussions, he had concluded that blacks and whites do not readily accept offspring of such relationships, so the children end up suffering."

[nicoli-dominn.livejournal.com]

If I had a dollar for every time someone made that poor excuse...

[sethg]

Dear Idiotic Ex-JP:

You know why children of interracial marriages have such problems in our society? Because of bigots like you.

HTH. HAND.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

That Seventeen article was problematic on several levels.

It smacked of transphobia, and it was lacking a trans POV.

That said, I felt like the telling of the tale and the framing of it were two different opinions. The "author" seemed more upset over the fact she felt she'd been lied to, and worse, the way she found out. The way the article was written, and the way it was framed in the layout was all OMG HE WAS REALLY A SHE HOW AWFUL.

I feel like the disclosure discussion is one I am ill-equipped to make. I know it's something I would like to know, but I'm also not going to proscribe what's right or good for the trans community. Even in the comments at PHB, there was disagreement amongst the trans commenters about it.

[rm.livejournal.com]

To me the issue with the article isn't about disclosure at all. It's that the article refused to accept the existence of trans identity and implied that the act of existing as a trans person was an act of lying as opposed to maybe this particular relationship issue was or wasn't handled well.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Gah, that's the point I was trying to make.

Thank you for clarifying it.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Heh! It's going to be a bad day on the Internet.

[newsbean.livejournal.com]

I've had to check several times this morning to make sure we're not Mercury Retrograde and no one told me.

I like to consider myself the "Green Eggs and Ham" on the social/sexual buffet.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Hand to heart, I don't think the disclosure thing is something that will ever be easy in our generation. I know I tend to lead with it on dating sites, and I don't really make a secret of my trans status, but I can think of instances where it was not going to be the first thing out of my mouth for eleventy-billion reasons, one of which has absolutely been the desire to shag or date. The hope is always that someone will see me first, and then accept (and even, holy crap, totally dig?) my hybrid anatomy on account of the rest of the awesome.

But damn, the lying liar narrative is such a huge presence in our culture. And the "but you're really a..." thing. Seventeen need to back the fuck up and run a real, actual, not-sensationalized article on this stuff. This is not okay.

[contrarywise]

Some day I'll learn not to read the comments on blogs reporting on *fail. But still, way to (not) go, Seventeen. *headdesk*

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

- Official who refused to perform interracial marriages has resigned.

Interestingly, miscegenation was the thing that brought it home for me in concrete ways why gay rights should not be impeded because of religious issues. I'm sort of shocked to see this story. Racism's still everywhere but how is this not over?!

[nicoli-dominn.livejournal.com]

So the USA...a government originally founded by IMMIGRANTS...now wants to deny full rights to other legal immigrants. And people don't see the hypocrisy HOW? I really don't want to believe people are that thoughtless. Are they? Because if they area, I might have to kill people.

Also: first California, now Maine. Our country is moving BACKWARDS, bit by bit. We need a president and a bunch of congress members who will stick up for equal marriage rights and impose an amendment redefining marriage. One that also denies a states' ability NOT to acknowledge equal marriage rights. I get it...states are their own form of government. But there comes a point where the unity of a country depends on the cooperation of all states involved, and BASIC rights like marriage deserve full cooperation.

That Seventeen article sickens me. Sadly, though, it doesn't surprise me. Editors and journalists for rags like that--APTLY titled rags--don't seem to think that basic forms of respect, never mind journalistic integrity, apply to them. Yeah...they're exempt because they're only entertaining, not educating, right? I hope they get so much angry mail that they can't even reach their desks.

[sethg]

One of the "great" American traditions is for descendants of Immigration Wave N to shit on the people coming over on Immigration Wave N+1. Then Immigration Wave N+2 hits, and the N+1 folks have someone to look down on, and the N folks decide the N+1 folks aren't so bad in comparison.

[sihaya09.livejournal.com]

Emma Thompson has agreed to remove her name from a petition supporting Polanski's release.

I just did a happy dance of ultimate happy.

In other news, I'm adding you. Hi, I'm Chris.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Hi! Welcome.

[labellerose.livejournal.com]

The news about Emma Thompson was a bright spot in my day. Thanks.

[fruitsgrow.livejournal.com]

I remember Cosmo Girl did an article on a trans man; I cannot remember for the life of me if anything was problematic, really, but I do remember it was told from his perspective and the difficulties he faced. He, also, had a very caring and understanding girlfriend at the time of the article.

I suppose Cosmo did it better? (sob, so please, come back. I hate Seventeen.)

[darkrosetiger.livejournal.com]

I'm going to concentrate on the Emma Thompson thing, because that is really cool.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

that gas station-to-home is really quite cool! hideous, sure, and i wouldn't want to live in it, but i am a fan of taking things that have been discarded and turning them into something new and useful

[lorem_ipsum]

Yeah, apparently now we're talking about healthcare reform not applying to legal immigrants.

WHAT. WH. OH MY FUCKING GOD. FLAMES. FLAMES ON THE SIDES OF MY FACE.

ROCKS FALL. EVERYONE DIES.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

While I know the opinions of a single celebrity shouldn't matter to me, I do have a little "squee" going on that Emma Thompson has taken her name off that petition.

[random-girl.livejournal.com]

Appropos of nothing, I saw this and thought of you:

http://www.examiner.com/x-355-Low-Carb-Examiner~y2008m6d4-Cauliflower-Pizza-Crust-Worth-its-Wow-in-Gold

If you try the gluten free cauliflower crust, please let me know how it goes.