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100 BILLION THINGS TO DO AND NO TIME! On the plus side: Two hour video chat with Patty this morning.

Things that happened last night: I bought a cute dress for the NYMF closing party, a sewer rat headbutted my foot and I heard gunshots. Er, yay?

Can someone help me parse this? Margaret Cho eliminated from Dancing with the Stars because of gay dress. Look, not to feed cliches -- but, I think, there are a few reasons I'm at least vaguely entitled to here: um, HELLO, IT'S A VERY KITSCHY BALLROOM DANCE COMPETITION SHOW WITH C-LIST CELEBS. I am confused. Also, her dance partner? Not handling this elegantly. !?!?!?!!?

Mmmm, speaking of ever so tangentially, Pam Cook book is sort of annoying me now. That's a long post for another time and place. But this is the problem with overview books. Passing reference to queer theory by people who aren't queer theorists, pointing out a couple of inflammatory papers, glossing over some of the most interesting elements in the subject work that are on point, and, OH YEAH, apparently having read fewer media interviews with relevant parties than I have. And I'm just like -- what's up with that? I don't like any of the answers I'm coming up with. Luckily, it's like a couple of pages, before we're back to something else, but grrrrrr, Grrrrrrr.

Gay.com gets into the debate on the usefulness of the LGBT acronym. And there are many facets of a reasonable debate to be had there. Too bad they're being assholes about it.

Spiders to Mars!

D&J fundraising is at $910. Can we break the 4-figure mark today?

Okay, gotta run, maybe more later.

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

I think I agree with you here in that there's an unaknowledged divide between "community" and "common goal" that's causing his problems. The entire QUILTBAG is hurt by the general existance of "gender norms" and prejudice against people who deviate from them. Beyond that, there plenty of opportunity for favor-swapping among the various groups that doesn't necessitate claiming they're all the same.

(Then again, it's a hallmark of modern politics to lump together everyone who might vote similarly on a single issue and then declare that they're all the same. Because every democrat is a gay abortion-loving communist latte-swilling elite surrender-monkey.)