sundries

[rm]

I just want to say that relieving myself of the pressure of having to do sundries every day with the mix of articles and descriptions that makes everyone happy has been really good for me. That said, I'll still do some sometimes (see!) and I'm thinking of doing a "trash day" of links once a week on Letters from Titan. Win/win?

Also on LfT:

Comments

[nancylebov]

The article about play seems to assume that no imaginative play happens online.

[rm]

That was totally my response too.

[brewsternorth]

Or, indeed, on a computer; I remember feeling a little 'jossed' when the first Tomb Raider movie came out, since I'd been thinking about the adventures I wasn't seeing in playing "Tomb Raider II".

[spiderine]

"Tangentally I want to add: there's no one way to be a man, a woman, a lesbian, or even butch"

Fixed that for you. ;D

[redstapler]

LOL for use of a Hothead Paisan icon. <3

[redstapler]

That claiming butch identity article is fantastic.

It also makes me feel a lot better about my occasional need to just...not be a girl.

[rm]

This is awesome too, I keep meaning to write a thing about the prefix Mx: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/01/03/Justin_Bond__New_Name_and_Gender/

[brewsternorth]

Oo. I came across that link through the @sexgenderbody feed on Twitter: I'd be interested to read what you'd have to say on the subject. (There was also another article that ranked 'gender-neutral' pronouns by usability and neutralness elsewhere that I'll have to try and dig out from my Firefox history; thank heavens for the Awesome Bar.)

[rm]

I have an acute, acute aversion the whole Mr./Miss/Mrs./Ms. thing because I hate the idea that a term of respect is gendered / about marital status / can still seem political. I avoid designating one when I can, but I usually can't. I prefer people just use M. or, barring that, Ms. for me. I think Mx. is pure genius and very funny. I may have to pick that up myself.

As to the gender neutral pronouns people keep trying to add to English, I am a shooting-myself-in-the-foot purist, and I hate them all. I only use them when someone asks me to use them in reference to themselves.

[pshaw_raven]

I sent the play article to my girlfriend, who studied education and psychology and all that good stuff in college. We were in a store a few days ago pondering what it meant to see books and things advertising themselves as encouraging imaginative play. At the time, we just assumed that if you took the TV remote away that would help a great deal but we obviously over-simplified things. Personally, I recall childhood as one huge block of unstructured creative play, once school and homework were done. I can't imagine what it would be like for a little kid to be so scheduled up that they don't have time to ... be a kid.

[wcg]

So, I just subscribed to and read the existing entries on LfT. Wow. And Wow again.

I like it. And if I'm very, very, very courageous, I just might find it in myself to follow your advice. (And yes, I know many would think I already have. But you understand.)

[rm]

Thanks!

And which advice? I tell people do a lot of stuff, which you know is why people like me (and often, really, really don't like me).

[wcg]

"Be Grand."

[rm]

It's harder than people think. I have to remind myself about 100 times a day.