You know, I usually like kynn, but I do acknowledge there are occasionally times where she gets pretty damn strident.

The irony of the tone argument being used against her (particularly nastily) on a time when she was actually being pretty damn reasonable is not lost on me ( Read more... )

AHAHAHAHAHAhem.

To anyone who is somewhat concerned about the politics of the term "cisgendered"...does it make any difference to know that it was coined by a cisgendered person to describe herself in a discussion with bigendered and transgendered folks ( Read more... )

Cisgender and why it's an important term.

News Flash: Largo, Florida is full of bigoted fuckheads. Though there are clearly a few who have some sense, like City Commissioner Rodney Woods, one of the two dissenting votes: "I just cannot support this resolution. It's not something that's inside of me."

My favorite quote:"Mr. Stanton is not a role model. He's proven that. I think for the ( Read more... )

Haven't been around much, very busy in multiple areas. More later. But I had to share this:And so I say that "equal rights, save where it conflicts with religious principle" is on its face a proposition evil, cruel, and false.
Huzzah.

I am very pro-sex (yeah, I know, all of you are going, Duh!) and, at least in theory, pro-legalized-prostitution. I also believe that prostitution as it currently stands is very harmful, but I'd had a lot of trouble sorting out how to make that concrete, because it's not just that it's illegal.

ginmar posted on the subject, and her post and the threads ( Read more... )

For me, it's not about marriage, gay or straight or mono or poly ( Read more... )

When you see people talking about traditional marriage, it's sometimes good to remind them what that means:So I really am "Daddy's girl." And no man can approach me as an independent agent because I am not my own, but belong, until my marriage, to my father. At the time of my marriage, my father gives me away to my husband and there is a lawful ( Read more... )

If these sorts of things don't horrify you...then I'm not sure I can ever wrap my brain around your way of thinking ( Read more... )