This is the first image in the Wikipedia article on transgender. I don't often get stopped dead by a picture on teh Internets, but this one hit me. So simple, yet so powerful.


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It'll probably come as no surprise to any of you that I'm thinking seriously about taking on an alternate male persona in the SCA. Not in the Hi-I'm-A-Woman-Wearing-Pants level so commonly seen, but the level of quality and depth done by Jehan du Lac (jdulac) and Luke Knowlton, for example. There are too many people using flimsy excuses such as "I stole ( Read more... )

There's a psychological theory where once you learn a new concept, you suddenly see it "everywhere" for a while. Like maybe you learn a new word, and suddenly you notice it twice a day for the next week and wonder why it's "suddenly" so common. I can't remember the name, though ( Read more... )