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On an article arguing that "Most people can't afford to eat vegan"
While while intentioned and needed, and largely accurate, I think authour is making the common culture war mistake of equating "vegan" with "hippies who buy $10 asparagus water at Whole Foods" - mistaking an ethical principle for the common depiction of those with the media access to advocate for it and those to whom it is marketed as a luxury - ( Read more... ) -
In response to "you aren't offering enough for this license fee"
Hey ,
In the future, if you have moral concerns when I'm asking people for help, can you phone or PM me first? I'm very happy for you to point out that you are contacting me in public, and I'll make time to speak privately as soon as I can. Then, if you don't like my response, I guess I feel it's fair if you want to go ahead and raise your concerns ( Read more... ) -
On why Muslims are not "Taking Over France"
Regarding this video winding up on a Facebook Feed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbEJom2HJEg&feature=youtu.be
Response:
Speaking as someone who writes opinion articles for a Canadian news site, while this video is edited and voiced over with a professional ( Read more... ) -
In response to an article by a Wiccan posting her problems with Atheists
http://slutist.com/why-i-cant-do-it-with-atheists-and-how-magick-made-me-less-of-an-asshole/
I like that this article is calling for pluralism. And that it questions the line between trying to be right for the sake of ( Read more... ) -
In response to "Trans woman leading men's rights group"
http://www.dailyxtra.com/vancouver/news-and-ideas/news/trans-woman-leading-mens-rights-group-183906
Oh that is interesting. And, as someone who has a post-bac from SFU's Women's Studies department, yet who does not identify as a feminist (although my politics generally agree with those who do), I have many many thoughts! I don't know if any of ( Read more... ) -
A Dream of Star Trek (1)3
The dream:
Well, crap. Just when you think you've annihilated one alien warship, it turns out the entire thing is a trap and that warp in space that ran their engines is playing merry hell with the impulse drive. Which is to say: the Enterprise is going down.
We crash-land on a snow-blasted landscape. Between this and the battle, 60% survive. And, ( Read more... ) -
On the cotton ceiling and sex vs gender - trans/terf talking points
IS "THE COTTON CEILING" RAPEY?
It's a little more complicated than that. Consider the sentence "I'd never date a ____________"
Then rotate through a list of marginalized groups. Looks, body type, disability. Then extend from that to "our community is about sexuality. And anyone here who I wouldn't fuck is't really one of us."
Example consequences: ( Read more... ) -
Why a Sith Avatar?
Before anyone goes off on the usual Jedi propaganda rant, I'd like to point out that the whole damn Jedi order presided over a 5-millenium "republic" with zero innovation, and rather a lot of slavery. The Sith by contrast - an organization consisting of two people - pushed massive technological leaps in one generation. Of course the only ones you ( Read more... ) -
A letter about frustration that I just sent
I'm emailing you for a reason that I don't normally email people. I'm weirdly pissed-off after a few larp incidents in the last week. I emphasize *weirdly* as opposed to "really." The incidents started with the last Changeling game, continued on through trying to talk things out with Craig (nothing bad happened, it just relates to the below), and ( Read more... ) -
In response to: /Why the trans community won't support my project/
One of the problems we ran into with crowdfunding The Switch - A Transgender Comedy is that our community's spending patterns are unlike most others. While most Kickstarters would exponentially grow towards a goal and then exceed it, often easily doubling or quintupling their goal, ours crested the minimum before the halfway mark, and then... ( Read more... )