If anybody out there has any information about third-generation diethylstilbestrol exposure, endocrine disorders, and gender dysphoria, I would be very grateful if you'd point me to it.

It's not for a friend.

Remember to check your sources. This is a neutral post, though you all know where my own biases fall. Remember to check your sources. Nobody is being accused here. Remember to check your sources. This is a matter of principle, not of emotion, and applies to everybody. Remember to check your sources. I've made this mistake many times before, too. ( Read more... )

"I have this rule of thumb. Once the Japanese have a term for it, you no longer have to feel ashamed of it." -- name withheld to protect the "innocent"

(If it makes you feel any better, the topic was living at your parents' home.)

( I generally have a lot of respect for these guys and their general lack of grandstanding, but evaluate it for yourself... )

"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." -- Mitch HedbergAngry self-righteous posts telling people to stop making angry self-righteous posts about Katrina are still angry, self-righteous posts. :) I made the same mistake over the last couple days, so I say this with all due humility. This is a sincere effort to get people to take a ( Read more... )

Attention nerds with spare time and travel money:

Xeni Jardin is compiling ways techies can help out with Katrina relief. Pass this one along, I know there have got to be both disaster relief people and interested techies within a few hops of this journal.

Unrelated, boingboing also has posts on the "black looter, white finder" controversy, and ( Read more... )

"I am FULL of Christ's endless love, you BITCH!" -- the movie Saved, by way of errorist

(thanks for the corrections, Mousit and Baktre!)

I would've liked to drop this, but I've been quoted out of context and I think it's only fair to respond. For those of you who also read ilthuain's journal, I thought you might like to see the entire e-mail exchange quoted in his attack. You read his response and tell me if he "gave this nitwit me a chance ( Read more... )

"Someone, somewhere, is dying right as I'm typing this. At the very same time, people are laughing and fucking. The contrast seems jarring, but really, the alternative would be so bleak as to make dying a blessing, because people are dying all the time." -- wastrel

( Old-school postvixen: personal, ranty, and possibly a bit high on the drama scale, but I swear I'm just thinking out loud. )