School Update
First, after three years of pulling teeth to get people on board with pronouns and recognizing me as male at law school? I walk into each and everyone one of my grad classes and somehow miraculously pass as male. Hell if I get it, but I'm certainly happy about it.
With one caveat.
One of my professors...used to be my boss. While I was in my 'professional power chick' phase. Oops.
I sent him an email ahead of class starting letting him know what was going on (which killed me to have to do, considering I thought I was finally DONE with that)...never heard back. Showed up on the first day, he gave no indication he knew who I was. Even when we had to introduce ourselves and give a plethora of information - including our high school and what our favourite extracurricular had been - and I said I had most enjoyed JSA (the organization where I worked for him a few years after high school), no recognition of ME, just of the organization. So I'm thinking "Hey, good enough. Less embarrassing this way."
Yesterday I get an email indicating he recognized me (he claimed he "thought I looked familiar", and that's where I call bullshit because professors who knew me that same year have universally had NO idea who I was, and that was with the 'old' hair!) and that he wants me to help him on some kind of special project.
So there goes that hope of being nice and stealthy-trans at this particular school. Bah. It was nice while it lasted...
Second, I keep forgetting how differently lawyers view things than non-lawyers. For instance, when a professor who is writing a book about the fifteen most important laws in shaping the US, I start by thinking 'what have a lot of major court cases come out of?'...and managed to guess something like 5 of them on my own. Another kid said "Madison and Marbury." By which he MEANT Marbury v. Madison, a supreme court case that established judicial review. Ah well.
Third, I'm quickly slipping back into my previous role as 'I know the answers!'-boy. I don't mean to, I just can't help it. It's partly also because I spent three years not understanding a word they were talking about, and now I DO again. I need to watch it, is all.
Fourth, why in the world does my professor think that blogs are the answer to the news channels including too many opinions with too few facts? I've never read a blog where I felt like the person writing knew more about the policy/issue than I did - why does their opinion get more credence than mine? Or than anyone else's? Why are we looking to them for political insight in place of our own? I'm a big fan of media credentials, and I think it's the rise of blogs that have encouraged journalists to become MORE fluff-and-opinion-based. I love that an example one girl gave of interesting things she read on a blog this week was a piece suggesting that Obama didn't pick Hilary as his running mate because Muslims treat women as second-class citizens and/or property. This is supposed to inspire confidence in some yahoo's opinion? Seriously?
But I digress.
Does anyone have a political blog they can recommend? I'm required to bring in a 'blog of the week' every single freakin' week to this one class, and right now my blog-reading consists of the occasional Andrew Sullivan (which used to be better) and mocking HuffPo (because if I wanted that kind of unresearched, left-biased, knee-jerk writing, I'd rejoin A.N.S.W.E.R.) and pointing out factual and legal inaccuracies in Qweerty and Pam's House Blend.
With one caveat.
One of my professors...used to be my boss. While I was in my 'professional power chick' phase. Oops.
I sent him an email ahead of class starting letting him know what was going on (which killed me to have to do, considering I thought I was finally DONE with that)...never heard back. Showed up on the first day, he gave no indication he knew who I was. Even when we had to introduce ourselves and give a plethora of information - including our high school and what our favourite extracurricular had been - and I said I had most enjoyed JSA (the organization where I worked for him a few years after high school), no recognition of ME, just of the organization. So I'm thinking "Hey, good enough. Less embarrassing this way."
Yesterday I get an email indicating he recognized me (he claimed he "thought I looked familiar", and that's where I call bullshit because professors who knew me that same year have universally had NO idea who I was, and that was with the 'old' hair!) and that he wants me to help him on some kind of special project.
So there goes that hope of being nice and stealthy-trans at this particular school. Bah. It was nice while it lasted...
Second, I keep forgetting how differently lawyers view things than non-lawyers. For instance, when a professor who is writing a book about the fifteen most important laws in shaping the US, I start by thinking 'what have a lot of major court cases come out of?'...and managed to guess something like 5 of them on my own. Another kid said "Madison and Marbury." By which he MEANT Marbury v. Madison, a supreme court case that established judicial review. Ah well.
Third, I'm quickly slipping back into my previous role as 'I know the answers!'-boy. I don't mean to, I just can't help it. It's partly also because I spent three years not understanding a word they were talking about, and now I DO again. I need to watch it, is all.
Fourth, why in the world does my professor think that blogs are the answer to the news channels including too many opinions with too few facts? I've never read a blog where I felt like the person writing knew more about the policy/issue than I did - why does their opinion get more credence than mine? Or than anyone else's? Why are we looking to them for political insight in place of our own? I'm a big fan of media credentials, and I think it's the rise of blogs that have encouraged journalists to become MORE fluff-and-opinion-based. I love that an example one girl gave of interesting things she read on a blog this week was a piece suggesting that Obama didn't pick Hilary as his running mate because Muslims treat women as second-class citizens and/or property. This is supposed to inspire confidence in some yahoo's opinion? Seriously?
But I digress.
Does anyone have a political blog they can recommend? I'm required to bring in a 'blog of the week' every single freakin' week to this one class, and right now my blog-reading consists of the occasional Andrew Sullivan (which used to be better) and mocking HuffPo (because if I wanted that kind of unresearched, left-biased, knee-jerk writing, I'd rejoin A.N.S.W.E.R.) and pointing out factual and legal inaccuracies in Qweerty and Pam's House Blend.