Here is my flash of brilliance for the day: just get the hell out of an argument between someone who is transsexual and someone who is transgender, when the TS person is soapboxing about what "transgender people" really believe

Oh dear...

The Girl was losing the plot recently because some TG *and* TS people at Pride this year wanted drag queens banned. Apparently it's bad for their image. The Girl has a more inclusive view of gender than anyone I've ever met, and she was not amused.

Goodness, erin - that sounds complicated. Much ~ma in the direction of Virginia. And at least your family has *now* heard of the spoon theory.

Oh, erin. I'm so sorry, and am sending all kinds of loving~ma out to VA.

wanted drag queens banned

Heresy! Outrage! And just plain no fun!

More seriously, what - were they threatened by the performative nature of gender in drag? It confuses straight people, so let's legislate part of our own community to make it easier to understand? Do not comprehend.

Why is it some days I have no trouble eating less than my diet-allotted calories, and other days I could (and um, do) eat twice the allotment?

Most likely your body needs more food one day than the next. I think the biological process is more complex than calories in, calories out, though.

Glad you're having fun with your houseguest, smonster!

~ma to VA. And 50 lashes with a wet noodle for Dad.

Argh, erin. Your dad's plan sounds really, deeply unwise. How old is your sister? What options for, like, life does she have if he cuts her out altogether? And how doubly frustrating for you, to be seeing it all play out from so far away, and have your dad rebuff you when you raise your concerns. Much, much ~ma to all your family.

Argh, erin. Your dad's plan sounds really, deeply unwise.

I concur. It's likely going to leave her even more angry and confused than she already is. I mean, I was a relatively well-adjusted kid when my dad did the "I banish you from my life forever!" routine and I still have some pretty deep-seated anger issues.

Sounds like he's using the rationale of excising her for "her own good/consequences/blah blah blah" as an excuse so that he no longer has to deal with the shit.

Of course, that might just be my own experience speaking, so take all with a giant grain of salt.

Much ~ma for your sister and your whole family, erin. And you! I wonder how your dad is expecting this to work out.

meara, having kept track of these things obsessively, I know there are days when I'm going to be eating everything in sight and craving carbs, and other days when I barely think of food at all, and it's due to hormone fluctuations. It's marked on my calendar: Eat Everything Day is followed by Sleep and Eat All Day Like a Bear Day which is followed by Intractable Headache and Cranky as Shit for two days, then Intractable Backache for two days, and then my period arrives. YHormonalHellMV

I'd bet every dollar in my wallet that song "I Enjoy Being a Girl" was written by a guy.

I'd bet every dollar in my wallet that song "I Enjoy Being a Girl" was written by a guy.

Two of 'em, actually. Rodgers & Hammerstein.

I enjoy being a girl. I just don't write songs.

Oooh, Mama needs a silver corset. (Yes, I just referred to myself as "Mama." No, I am not pregnant; it was the colloquial "Mama," as in "Look at that hot mama in the silver corset and Batman t-shirt.")

Seriously, that's awesome.