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Hey, when I say don't be assholes the correct response is not ignoring people's boundaries and/or making DIAF remarks. I am not happy.

Fuck Yeah, Skeksis!

I find the idea of "Things That Are Not Like Guns" weirdly hilarious. Last night Patty and I had a long discussion about to what degree sharks are, or are not, like guns. Sharks are, for the record, not like guns.

HPOA girl likely fake. Some iteration of just that thing shows up every couple of years, and the story is always too perfect -- pretty chick (you side with her), industry people love to hate (Wall Street now, Internet start-ups then), with lots of expected sexism (it could be an after-school special!), culminating with an attack on some Internet phenomenon that annoys the fuck out of a lot of people (Farmville).

The flight attendant story is still real though.

And so is that of the guy who took his bus on a 1,300 mile detour.

Interesting story about the legality of 66 marriage licenses issues to same sex couples in New Mexico in 2004. They stand.

Mexico City same-sex marriages must be recognized as legal throughout Mexico.

And Costa Rica has ruled against a referendum that would take a vote on recognizing same-sex unions. The courts says such a vote would put LGBT at a disadvantage.

Is that your baby? About being mistake for the nanny in multi-racial families.

Patty sent this to me yesterday as "Horrifying Inception Find." There's really little more I can add, but I'll warn you it's a screen-shot of a Craigslist casual encounters ad, the language is NSFW, and it's in the category of dirty, dirty cosplay sex. I share because I care.

Rules for hats flumox hipsters: I don't care if your fedora cost $80, when you're inside, you take it off.

I hate this fucking Jack/Auggie fic. Okay, I've finally got Auggie's voice, and I know where it's going and what is already ridiculously wrong with the whole thing and faily and needs to be fixed. But increasingly, I feel like I can't write this fic without making a mess. Every online conversation I see about Auggie on blogs related to disabiity issues has about six different sides. Which is to say, I don't think it's possible to produce this story without being really offensive to multiple someones.

That said, I'm still beating my head against the thing, because I think the pairing and the story make sense and that it should be possible to tell a good story that isn't faily. So, if you're tuned in to Covert Affairs, and particularly if you're viewing it from a living with disabilities perspective, and have a comment about what they are doing right or wrong with Auggie (aside from the actor not actually being blind, since that's a perfectly reasonable topic for conversation, but one that won't help me solve this story) that you'd like to share, I am so all ears. Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh.

Speaking of Covert Affairs -- how great was this week's episode? Jai suddenly gets interesting and isn't just the bad guy. I don't hate the idea of a possible Jai, Auggie, Annie love triangle (oh god, someone write me that threesome). The gossipy relationship premise of the show is feeling more organic even if it's still too straight for my taste. The women kick ass. And pretty much everything is awesome except for the whole thng with Annie's former beau that I just don't care about at all.

Which brings us to White Collar -- now that was an episode. And Peter is just so effortlessly the boss of Neal, it's kinda hilarious. And I loved the high-class repoman chick. And Neal's look of being nauseated in the face of handling a gun, and pretty much the whole thing which felt like a very New York episode. Much love. I still don't care about Kate though, even if the part of the story about the FAA tapes was actually well done.

Comments

[mangosteen]

Re: The HPOA girl.

I really wanted to believe it... but my spidey sense told me that the lighting was too good.

(Really? A key light? Uh huh.)

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

My husband said that he knew it was fake because of HPOA. No one talks like that in the workplace, he said.

We had A Discussion about that nonsense. *sigh* You'd think he'd know better by now.

[browneyedgirl65.livejournal.com]

The part I thought was odd was that the acronym was HPOA, but she quoted him as saying "hopa" (which is a term for half japanese half white person) -- is HPOA pronounced like HOPA?

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

I should think it would be HoPOA?

I've never heard it abbreviated, though. Every pig I've ever worked with has just flat out said hot piece of ass.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

I think you mean "hapa", as in "hapa haole". (Well, that's what it was, originally, half Hawaiian native, half something else. The Japanese community there coopted it, as a replacement for a less acceptable Japanese term for mixed culture kids. AJAs on the mainland (of the U.S.) sometimes say 'haafu' (half).)

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Linguistic nitpick, for anyone who's interested -- "hapa" in the Hawaiian language is a noun/stative verb, initially derived from the English "half", but in Hawaiian having the more general meaning of a portion, fragment, etc.: to name a specific fraction like a half, third, etc. it's used as a prefix with the number in question, i.e. "half" = hapalua from hapa + 'elua (two). By extension, used by itself it's also the general term for a person of mixed descent, or as a prefix when specifying their mixed ethnicity -- hapa Hawai'i = "part Hawaiian", hapa haole = "part white", etc. This usage passed into the islands' pidgin English that developed in the late 1800s, as English began to replace Hawaiian and pidgin-Hawaiian as the dominant language, and it's still very commonly used in that general "mixed/multiracial" sense in modern Hawaiian Creole English, spoken by people of many different ethnic backgrounds. The real cooption came when folks on the mainland US and beyond picked up the term and redefined it as meaning specifically "part Asian".

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the clarification.

I see the Japanese community in Hawai'i using "hapa" to mean "any mixed race" - (I guess sort of as "more identifiable as to origins than your average poi dog, but more mixed than someone who identifies as Portagee, etc.)

Hapa to mean "part Japanese" or "part Asian" is indeed a big change. My parents, when I was growing up, used the slightly problematic word "ainoko" (love child, implying bastardy).

[sociallyawkrd.livejournal.com]

I thought it was fake...but I have to say at my insanity producing workplace which is a walking sexual harassment lawsuit/discrimination lawsuit I have heard that and worse terms. So applied to me...in my presence.

Some industries are still very much a hyper-sexualized, boys club. I work for one.