HOWEVER, I maintain that, through their spinelessness, they are inadvertently psychologically torturing him.

oh, yes, I totally agree. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I was just trying to make the point that it seems that everyone is blaming the parents for torturing the kid, but I think that they're in a bad place as well.

You can play with whatever you want, you can dress however you want, you can look at whatever color you want. But, just in case, here's how to punch someone.

Hah! This is why I love Miracleman!

I had this awful and very realistic dream that for some reason I had moved out of my fabulous apartment and into a very very sketchy basement studio in a building that was full of like, crack addicts, so I was scared to walk through the halls. It was very depressing! I was so glad to wake up and be like "Whew! Not my life!"

But I ALSO had a dream that we had built this...buffistas community center building? Apparently it was near wherever I was (not sure if that was Seattle), but everyone else too! Magic transporter beams? Who knows! Liese was living in part of it and teaching music lessons. And I was trying to remind everyone that now that we had it, we didn't need to find any other place to hold Prom.

Well, hence the air quotes. Basically she's trying so hard to be genderblind that she winds up getting him the most outrageously girly stuff she can find. It's both endearing and hysterical.

oh, I see, sorry! We need a sarcasm emoticon. Or at least I do :)

I dreamed that I ended up with five or six cats. Also, swimming to Guam. Or rather, to the left, but I was hoping I would end up at Guam eventually. And I remember looking at a clock and thinking, "Oh hell, now I have to swim to Puerto Rico and back before work, and I should really be on the road in an hour."

I like meara's better, not least because mine contained no other Buffistas.

I don't think I can stand to listen to the NPR spot but yeah I blame the doctor. Most people would apply lethal electric shocks to strangers if a guy in a white lab coat told them it was OK.

I love all of you right now. Especially Burrell. It's one of the things that *instantly* warmed me to The Riches, that the youngest son wears makeup and dresses, but his parents are completely fine with that.

It makes me so proud of Burrell, and Aimee and MM, and really all of us. Gives me hope for the future, it does.

Gives me hope for the future, it does.

It would probably be better if we'd breed like rabbits, though. Come on, people? Where are the gigantic broods?

Er, keeping in mind that I am exempt because mumblemumblemumble.

The Boy is not transgender; that is, he doesn't feel like he's in the wrong body, and he has no interest in reassignment surgery; he just likes pretty clothes and 5-inch heels.

And we know he’s not gay, since you’re gettin’ it regular ;)

He's not gay, but *I* am now....

And well, who doesn’t like pretty clothes and 5 inch heels (well, the heels on other people, ‘cause they make my feet hurt)

It just makes me laugh, because I come home from work and take OFF my heels and skirt and put on shorts and a t-shirt, and *he* comes home from work and takes off his pants and plain shirt and puts on a dress and heels.

Donna Reed, inverted.

Hivemind question:

A week ago today I tripped and fell while running on pavement and gave myself a nasty scrape and bruise on the edge of my kneecap. I've been putting neosporin on it and bandaging it during the day, then letting it air out at night. It doesn't look seriously infected, it's not warm to the touch, and it's changed from angry purple to more of a pink. But it still hurts off and on (and really really hurts if touched) and it's, um, oozing just a tiny bit. Is that normal? I think it's just that it's hard for a knee cut to scab over properly, what with it being in such a bendy place, but it still seems like it shouldn't be hurty and oozy after all this time.

You guys! I'm going to Disneyland tomorrow! Squee!