erika, I'm big on using every weapon I've got, at any given time, to get the information I need. I did it when I was in a chair, I do it with the MS, and whatever it takes. This is the hand I'm holding, right? Shit, if the joker turns out to sub for the occasional missing ace, that's how I'm using it.

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Okay, I can't remember last night's idea, so instead, I bring you this:

Challenge #46 (describe something small) is now closed.

Challenge #47 is YELLOW.

My memory is a sieve.

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Good news, Deb! Seriously? In re the Gimp Card? Because it's hard for me...feels weird taking advantage of my "shame" or something. Cause it's weird...we love you, we hate you. Go back to your cave. Come to the front of the line. You're disgusting. You're special.(Could y'all have a meeting and pick a neurosis so I only have to cope with one? Ta.) That said, this is total Work of A Lifetime, so if I have to be embarrassed, "Ain't Too Proud To Beg."

Hypothetically speaking, would you play the girl card to get out of a ticket, erika? When I was 20, I wouldn't. I was on my way to get my car inspected. It should have been inspected in August. It was September 1st. I'd moved back to school on 8/31. On my way to the inspection station, I got pulled over. I told the cop I was on my way to get it inspected (I truly was), and was just driving it for the 20 minutes the shop recommended (for emissions testing) beforehand. The cop snarked, "Oh, isn't that convenient." I snarked back something like, "Since you pulled me over, not so much."

I got a $50 ticket for driving an uninspected vehicle, which also meant an insurance surcharge of something like 50 bucks a year for 3 years (or 5, it was a long time ago), because that particular violation is considered a moving violation. I've never been too proud to play the girl card since, if the situation demands. If I lose sometimes because of being a girl, then darn it, I'm not to proud to gain sometimes, because I'm a girl. Yeah, yeah, probably set the movement back 3 decades. Screw the movement. They couldn't even get the ERA passed.

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Screw the movement. They couldn't even get the ERA passed.

Talk to the Mormon Church about that, ma'am - they donated nearly twenty million dollars to make sure it didn't pass. Apparently, God doesn't love girls, or at least, the people who claim to have his private email - as well as having all the money - say so.

As for setting the movement back? I doubt it. I'll use whatever portion of my anatomy, functional or not at the moment, for whatever the objective is, providing I don't have a scruple involved. I'm fairly fierce about those.

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It would depend how much of a bit it would have to be, I think.If I'm driving down the road and the cop just thinks I have a nice face or nice...whatever else, and gives me a break, then that is like the brighter side of profiling, and not my "fault". Uncomfortable to profit from, but I'd have to be out of my mind to argue* into* a ticket(although I have argued into longer spots in line. Ironically, considering what I write, it being a cop plays into my "stick it to the Man" chromosome, which is quite developed and has left me with authority issues that could float a boat.) Now, if I'm gonna have to sell it, bend so he can look down my blouse, giggle when he asks "Do you know how fast you were going?"...I'd take the ticket. My wiles look like ticcing anyways.But it's hard if you want respect that isn't of the" If I were you, I'd shoot myself," sort. Because some people want to give me credit for breathing air, and others I'll never get it from, ever. But I suppose I could talk about it without having be a pityfuck. It is a dominant theme of my current work, and I'm published in the disability press. That's not the same thing as when I asked about being on a telethon and Mom said "Over my dead body,"(Gee, wonder where my style came from?)

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erika, I was completely relentless during my adult time in the wheelchair. I figured, the universe and I had a little contrentemps and the universe, in this instance, won. That being the case? Anything I could use to level the playing field was fair game.

Since we were trying to pass the ADA, the 'tude came in handy.

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Ha.Rule 5 "It's good to be good. It's better to be, well, not "lucky", exactly." Rule 5 says I should go for it,probably.

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Deborah:

Talk to the Mormon Church about that, ma'am - they donated nearly twenty million dollars to make sure it didn't pass. Apparently, God doesn't love girls, or at least, the people who claim to have his private email - as well as having all the money - say so.

As a currently vigilantly non-practicing Mormon and practicing agnostic, I feel like this isn't quite the entire story. It also had a lot to do with Mormons being interested in shutting out anything resembling the acceptance of homosexuality as a valid gender issue. That's what they told us in church, anyway.

Not in so many words, of course, because that would've, y'know, encouraged people to wonder about homosexuality, and then...well...it's a slippery slope. Indeed.

There's still a lot of work being done on the ERA, only three states left to pass it (they have 35 of the required 38 necessary). Utah, natually, being one of those states stuck in the nineteenth century, equal-rights-wise.

Hi! My name's Marie, and I'm trying to write a sci-fi/fantasy novel at the moment. ;-D

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Hey requeen! Welcome. And yep, of course it's not close to the whole story. But two very high-profile Mormons at the time Carl Whatsis (why can I never remember his surname?) of Carl Jr. and a fairly well-known hotelier, were extremely vocal about how much they were giving, and they were very vocal about why. I was in the UK at the time and they spoke fairly freely to the locals from the BBC.

My point to Cindy is, don't blame the movement for not passing it. The movement was underfunded and up against not only the God Squad and the uberright, but against vocal God Squad folks with extremely deep pockets.

The ERA was something I fought for, and I didn't much appreciate the patriarchy taking time from their golf games to keep me and mine from earning the same money they did, for doing the same job, especially when they stated their reasons.

Anyone tries dehumanising me, or reducing me to peonage in the name of their beliefs, is welcome to try, but they also talk to my crossbow. I really, really really wanted those two gentlemen to come tell me why Eve should make 63 cents to Adam's dollar for doing the same gig. Alas, it didn't happen.

So where are you in terms of the novel? Planning, partial, done, rewrite? Dish, please.

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My point to Cindy is, don't blame the movement for not passing it.

Yeah, neither do I, deb. I was having fun. I don't have the patience for this earnest sort of conversation, right now...

The movement was underfunded and up against not only the God Squad and the uberright, but against vocal God Squad folks with extremely deep pockets.

...which is why I won't bother to explain how Christian women got me interested in feminism in the first place, in a positive manner.

Sometimes, I just take the piss.

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