While I'm doing some not really boring, but long and slow, work on a book...
Ambivalence
When you want to remind people that being transgender does not cause SSRI dementia, and then you read a news item like
...and you want to post something like "Let's just give all those trans folks the old Albert Cashire treatment."
(Albert Cashire was the self-chosen identity of a brave little soldier in the American Civil War. "He" was small and soft-spoken because "he" was, after the war, declared a biological female. While other women cross-dressed to fight for their side in the Civil War, Cashire may have been the only one who chose to continue living as a man. "He" was pronounced mentally ill and detained in a mental hospital until "he" acted like a proper Victorian woman. This was not a matter of days, as might have been expected. Victorians didn't have the technology to examine a lock of "his" hair and count how many hairs showed X versus Y chromosomes.)
Animals
It's not that the cat toys in the store aren't worth buying. They show that your heart's in the right place and make a good impression on the human. And the cat will enjoy them...on exactly the same terms the cat will enjoy the junk. That is: most cats enjoy objects for the entertainment value a different mind can bring to them. They want to see where you roll the ball or jiggle the giant-fishing-fly thingie. Even the boxes and bags are most interesting to cats when they have someone to chase or hide from or snuggle up with inside them. (Mother-to-be cats definitely like cardboard boxes, especially the ones with soft warm blankets in them.)
The graphic was on the Meow; Google traces it to Aegon Aziz on F******k.
More Malay butterflies:
#MadMen
California parents need to go ballistic on this. Male teachers or school staff who question girls' ":mental health" are ABUSERS. They should not be allowed within 500 yards of any child. One good way to achieve the desired goal would be for about half of the female student body to exercise school choice and stay away from the Temecula public school system until they receive written apologies for the schools' having allowed sick men to question the girls' competence. The apologies should include at least one of the phrases "mad men," "sick men," or "crazy men," and should name the individuals who have earned those descriptions and are henceforward banned from school property.
It needs to be a universal rule: IF A MAN QUESTIONS A WOMAN'S COMPETENCE, HE HAS A CONFESSION TO MAKE. Not necessarily of physical violence, but he's done SOMETHING wrong. And he shouldn't be employed, rented to, or listened to, until he's confessed that wrongdoing. It's not that women are never mistaken, uninformed, or disturbed...it's that we know when we are any of those things, and we know under what circumstances we're misjudged by men.
"She's cr..."
"Is she having your baby or do you merely owe her money?"
Men need to know that that's what they'll get. Every single time.
Mental Health, Seriously, for Both Sexes
Snarky contrarians are not generally what thoughts like this one bring to mind. Hmm. Maybe there need to be a few extra tips for us snarky contrarians. "Laugh at yourself at least as much as at everyone else." "People who don't offer help after a disaster, when they have anything to offer, are ridiculous." But yes, although some people see only our snarky grins...
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