Everyday wisdom.

I wish I had known (or believed) a lot of those things when I was younger.

(Found via Wil Wheaton)

I just want to say something about oppression. Several people on my flist have been commenting on and referring to the big Race Fail of '09, so I've been thinking a bit about it lately. This is based on a comment I originally made to a very interesting post by kattahj.

( Cut for a very long rant about opression and the part we all play in it )

Episode 5 of Torchwood is called Small Worlds.

( Spoilers for episode 5 )

I've been thinking about gender again. It's not usually something that troubles me so much these days. B wrote to me some time ago about cross-dressing, and I wrote a long answer about gender, and how I think 'male' and 'female' are mostly arbitrary constructions, anyway. And then, at the party last weekend, M told me that I should wear make-up ( Read more... )