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Patty and I are both swamped. And next week she goes home to visit her family for about ten days. My kingdom for some uninterrupted us time, because she's awesome. Hey, at least England is coming up soon, and in the face of lots of work, we're actually being pretty good about staying sane and making time for each other. Oh spring.

Since I'm all about death things lately: A funeral is being held for IE6.

Controversy over POM Wonderful's assertion that drinking the stuff will give you more erections.

Hey, you thought the whole mess with New York State politics wasn't epic enough? Here's a random sidenote: Choking isn't even a felony here making it easier to minimize the domestic violence case at the current center of this mess.

DC Nightlife. Look, I lived there in the early 90s and couldn't understand why clubs let everyone in. I came from NYC. It confused me. Didn't you have to be good enough to get chosen?

An argument for taking gender out of the Oscars. For the record, I use the word "actor" for myself not because of gender queerness, but because I don't believe we need the word "actress" -- the article even notes (yay!) how the word is falling out of favor.

A Canadian politician says he didn't order chunks of information on LGBTQ rights deleted from a citizenship study guide, but the fact remains, if he didn't, someone else did.

Surprise, surprise. Anti-gay California politician arrested on DUI charges after leaving a gay bar with another man. Fuck you.

Gay marriage is now legal in DC. And you know what I'm noticing the most about the coverage? Acknowledgment of LGBTQ people of color of which there is waaaaaay too little of in general both from within the LGBTQ community and in the mainstream media.

Republican memo advises playing on "fear" of Obama.

Bigots: weirder than I thought. reannon links us to the AFA's post about how the killer whale that killed should be stoned to death.

Comments

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

I agree that the term "actor" should not be gendered, but I fear that if the Oscars stopped having seperate categories for women and men, then very few women would win -- because the most prominent roles in "serious" films go to men (and if a film is about women, it's often automatically designated as not-serious, and certainly not Oscar-worthy). And that would just play into the false narrative that people don't want to go to see movies about women.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly. I loved the idea of doing away with gender separations like this, but only if it wouldn't mean far fewer awards for women.

[matthewwdaly.livejournal.com]

But are people taking the current awards for women seriously, or does the industry just think of them as minor league prizes even when women turn in performances that deserve to be recognized as the best of the year?

One specific reason that I'd appreciate a "Best Lead Performer" award from somebody is that, not being much a movie buff, I never know which Lead Actress nominations are actually from films that are about women. Frex, when Halle Berry won for her lead in Monster's Ball, did she really lead or is it a movie about men and she just made Billy Bob Thornton and the rest look extra shiny?