I suppose at least all my frustration at feeling so comprehensively STUCK (weight, transition, employment, the trifecta of "things I have no fucking control over") is being channelled into lengthy and dramatic updates to the book, and now that I have my fitbit replaced can be supplemented with angry purposeful walks around the disgusting winter ( Read more... )

One of my favourite moments of last night was Nick Doody not completing a punchline because everyone had already got there, and then saying "I love this kind of crowd because you all know what I mean. WE ARE ALL AWARE OF REGRESSION TO THE MEAN, THANKS." Which I suspect you don't often get to say ( Read more... )

So I was going to try out this idea for a blog post about how tribal identities lead to deindividuation and how "I don't think of you as [queer/trans/a woman/black]" translates to "I think of you as an individual rather than an amorphorous other" a lot of the time, even if it is poorly expressed, and how people aren't A Woman or A Trans Woman so ( Read more... )

Statements on feminism that place me on the wrong side of feminism to many of my friends ( Read more... )

pure, utopian capitalism is unworkable because the human instinct for honouring kinship ties and patronage will lead to nepotism rather than meritocratic hiring decisions, and the markets will not be allowed to decide for the same reasons of patronage and kinship networks ( Read more... )

1. I do not believe that 100% of any given country are physically or mentally capable of supporting themselves financially.

2. I do not believe that 100% of the people who cannot support themselves have families or partners who can or will support them financially for their whole lives ( Read more... )

Things I would reasonably expect an immigrant to any country to do1. Learn enough of that country's primary language & official language (if not the same thing) to get by without severe inconvience to themselves. Provision should be made for this by the country's government, especially as learning another language in later life is not easy for ( Read more... )