Sunday Linkage : Ominbus 1
This Sunday’s Linkage:
Physical Gender Not Determined by XY Chromosomes After All
Seems like there is another process ( maybe even more) as to the formation of fetal gonads, that may actually enable sexual dysphoric people towards a non-surgical changing of the form of their gonads. It’s more complex than that, but in as little as 20 years, transgender might mean a very different process.
Katrina Redux New Disaster Same Contractors
Ashbritt Inc., one of the prime contractors hired by the Corps, testified in Congress that it received approximately $23 per cubic yard for debris removal in Mississippi.38 In contrast, a local contractor testified at the same hearing that it could have removed the debris for just $12.90 per cubic yard, a savings of 44% for the taxpayer.
So maybe, just maybe, we should find local companies up and running, still able to do the regional jobs post-disaster with a little help-but not completely "take over help"-and keep the money and lifeways flowing in a way that the local people affected can begin to prosper with.
Marketplace pushes tripe on social security
She also recommends raising the retirement age, apparently unaware of the fact that the retirement age has already been raised to 67. She also is apparently unware of the fact that the vast majority of the huge baby boom cohort has almost nothing saved for retirement and therefore will be almost entirely dependent on Social Security.
What the hell is an anti-mom!"
But the moms of my childhood that I remember most were the moms working and struggling to make their families successful whether they were single moms or a part of a couple. The moms I remember most and best are: Alice; Kate and Allie; Florida on Good Times; Elise Keaton on Family Ties, Claire Huxtable on The Cosby Show and Ann Romano on One Day at a Time. (I know there are so many more. Who are your favorite TV moms?)
But no one would have ever have called those women anti-moms? And seriously, what the hell is an anti-mom? All these women love and take care of their kids in a variety of ways like what happens off TV. Does putting a ridiculous and sexist term term out there help move the conversation forward in any proactive way?
Myself, I think of science fiction moms:
Janet Frazier, CMO, adoptive mom of an "alien" girl who grows up well adjusted, feisty and with a whole lot of fanfics dealing with her...not surprising since she shows up as her future self in an episode. One of the few domestic peaks into the SG1 & their supporters ( ie the CMO of their base and friend as well...) lives is a birthday party for Janet's beloved Cassie.
Dana Scully, MD: Mom of a "lost, secret" child, and a child of her and her adored Mulder's who she had to foster out...such sadness around Dana's momness.
Another CMO, Dr Crusher...she has a genius son, who might or not ascend to some higher plane...and she gets the gorgeous gorgeous Picard ( or at least, maybe I think she does...depends...); in general, a happier mom than either Dr. Frazier and Dr. Scully.
I didn't "grow up" with these three, but good role models, balancing life and career, pursuing a career they believe in, and being human as well.
Note: what is it about Doctors, and science fiction and momness...?
And where do I go for some pretty styles? A little bit of fashion fluff?
Mrs. O's blog
A blog all about what the FLOTUS wears.
When I was a young girl, if you asked me, who I wanted to look like, I’d say Elizabeth Taylor, Cher, Nefertiti, and most absolutely, Natalie Wood. You can sense a certain angular look, a little bohemian, a little elegant, and a classical look, dark hair...
I am fairly sure if I was 7 through around 13, today, one of the women I’d like to look like would be Michelle Obama.
And her color choices? Fantastic, although that woman looks like a goddess in coral.
And the site also has some interesting linkage to other fashion blogs, and fashion blogs have linkage to design-y blogs, so…well.
New site and author I’ve discovered…
Aliette De Bodard...
She has an AU where the Chinese were the ones that “discovered” Western Hemisphere first. Full of Aztec goodness. I want to buy her books. Her site is full of resources for Chinese and especially Meso-American, Central American history, culture, literature. Highly rcommended!
Final note: I like Angelina Jolie, but I've seen that projected what Cleopatra would look like...and wouldn't Zoe Saldana be better? huh, huh? Am-i-rite? Yes.
Physical Gender Not Determined by XY Chromosomes After All
Seems like there is another process ( maybe even more) as to the formation of fetal gonads, that may actually enable sexual dysphoric people towards a non-surgical changing of the form of their gonads. It’s more complex than that, but in as little as 20 years, transgender might mean a very different process.
Katrina Redux New Disaster Same Contractors
Ashbritt Inc., one of the prime contractors hired by the Corps, testified in Congress that it received approximately $23 per cubic yard for debris removal in Mississippi.38 In contrast, a local contractor testified at the same hearing that it could have removed the debris for just $12.90 per cubic yard, a savings of 44% for the taxpayer.
So maybe, just maybe, we should find local companies up and running, still able to do the regional jobs post-disaster with a little help-but not completely "take over help"-and keep the money and lifeways flowing in a way that the local people affected can begin to prosper with.
Marketplace pushes tripe on social security
She also recommends raising the retirement age, apparently unaware of the fact that the retirement age has already been raised to 67. She also is apparently unware of the fact that the vast majority of the huge baby boom cohort has almost nothing saved for retirement and therefore will be almost entirely dependent on Social Security.
What the hell is an anti-mom!"
But the moms of my childhood that I remember most were the moms working and struggling to make their families successful whether they were single moms or a part of a couple. The moms I remember most and best are: Alice; Kate and Allie; Florida on Good Times; Elise Keaton on Family Ties, Claire Huxtable on The Cosby Show and Ann Romano on One Day at a Time. (I know there are so many more. Who are your favorite TV moms?)
But no one would have ever have called those women anti-moms? And seriously, what the hell is an anti-mom? All these women love and take care of their kids in a variety of ways like what happens off TV. Does putting a ridiculous and sexist term term out there help move the conversation forward in any proactive way?
Myself, I think of science fiction moms:
Janet Frazier, CMO, adoptive mom of an "alien" girl who grows up well adjusted, feisty and with a whole lot of fanfics dealing with her...not surprising since she shows up as her future self in an episode. One of the few domestic peaks into the SG1 & their supporters ( ie the CMO of their base and friend as well...) lives is a birthday party for Janet's beloved Cassie.
Dana Scully, MD: Mom of a "lost, secret" child, and a child of her and her adored Mulder's who she had to foster out...such sadness around Dana's momness.
Another CMO, Dr Crusher...she has a genius son, who might or not ascend to some higher plane...and she gets the gorgeous gorgeous Picard ( or at least, maybe I think she does...depends...); in general, a happier mom than either Dr. Frazier and Dr. Scully.
I didn't "grow up" with these three, but good role models, balancing life and career, pursuing a career they believe in, and being human as well.
Note: what is it about Doctors, and science fiction and momness...?
And where do I go for some pretty styles? A little bit of fashion fluff?
Mrs. O's blog
A blog all about what the FLOTUS wears.
When I was a young girl, if you asked me, who I wanted to look like, I’d say Elizabeth Taylor, Cher, Nefertiti, and most absolutely, Natalie Wood. You can sense a certain angular look, a little bohemian, a little elegant, and a classical look, dark hair...
I am fairly sure if I was 7 through around 13, today, one of the women I’d like to look like would be Michelle Obama.
And her color choices? Fantastic, although that woman looks like a goddess in coral.
And the site also has some interesting linkage to other fashion blogs, and fashion blogs have linkage to design-y blogs, so…well.
New site and author I’ve discovered…
Aliette De Bodard...
She has an AU where the Chinese were the ones that “discovered” Western Hemisphere first. Full of Aztec goodness. I want to buy her books. Her site is full of resources for Chinese and especially Meso-American, Central American history, culture, literature. Highly rcommended!
Final note: I like Angelina Jolie, but I've seen that projected what Cleopatra would look like...and wouldn't Zoe Saldana be better? huh, huh? Am-i-rite? Yes.