Category: FB posts
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I was blathering to the spouse about inappropriate 80s song lyrics, and I mentioned Oingo Boingo’s “Liittle Girls” as one example of many songs (going back at least as far as The Beatles’s “I Saw Her Standing There”). And while songs like The Knack’s “My Sharona”, Motley Crue’s “All In the Name Of…”, and Ted…
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Today I’m reflecting on: Spencer Reid showed up very briefly on Criminal Minds, and it was an Autistic sucker punch for me. (This post is overt-spoiler-free, but there’s a fairly strong hint.) TV shows only show a slice of the life of the characters. Usually when characters disappear from a show, unless they’re killed or…
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1. One visit to Pine Knob after a week in Toronto provided a stark contrast in accessibility between the two countries. The only “sight-seeing” place we went in Toronto that felt hostile to people with disabilities was Casa Loma, and even it has a page about its accessibility access. Ripley’s Aquarium had two sensory tents,…
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It feels like the Loud Rhetorical Part of the White Progressive Left wants to believe there are two kinds of people: Those who have excised all prejudice from themselves, and those who are drowning in their own bigotry. So when Sarah McBride suggested that we’ll need to have tough conversations with people who don’t currently…
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A common mantra of the anti-trans crowd is “God does not make mistakes.” When a child dies of leukemia, the same people say, “God works in mysterious ways.” Which is it? If God does not make mistakes, then he meant to kill off that child. Why? Because He works in mysterious ways. Okay, so if…
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Something I’ve been thinking about: Is it counterproductive to point out that far more sex crimes against children are committed by clergy than by queer folks? This came from another thought: Are anti-queer bigots mad at the wrong people? Which merged with another, longer thought: Imagine you’ve been taught your entire life that sex is…
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This is me recording a dream so if you find those boring, scroll on, no problem. If you want to peek inside my brain, read on. (I am *not* looking for interpretation, though, so don’t do that; obvious parts are obvious, personal parts are personal.) It started as a promisingly boring dream: We (V, J,…
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The other day I was talking to a student about DID and how it seems like people claiming to have DID seem really common in certain online communities, far more common than DID really is. That got me thinking about my own experience with masking and thinking I have DID. To be clear: I am…
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It’s time to revisit Pat. Recently, Julia Sweeney appeared on The View to discuss the 50th SNL anniversary, and one of the topics was about her character Pat. The intended joke for that character was that nobody knew Pat’s gender and they were trying to figure it out through gender stereotypes. Sweeney’s position appeared to…
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Two folk etymologies in less than an hour means I have to comment. Especially since they both involve dogs. Here’s the truth about the origin of most of our oft-repeated phrases: We don’t know. Because idioms are generally spoken long before they’re written down, at least in the pre-internet era, terms get mutated and decontextualized.…