Tara: That was funny if you've studied Taglarin mystic rites and... are a total dork... Riley: Then how come Xander didn't laugh?

'Selfless'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jesse - Mar 29, 2012 7:32:46 am PDT #28593 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I do not doubt that, JZ. Because people are LITERALLY THE WORST.


Hil R. - Mar 29, 2012 7:33:29 am PDT #28594 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I remember (but can't hit the right set of Google terms to call it back up) reading an article by an MTF professor in (memfault) science, who was kind of appalled to overhear remarks in the halls by colleagues gossiping about the new guy and how great his most recent lectures/publications had been, and that he seemed to be a lot smarter than his sister who'd been around the year before.

There was something very similar to that in some articles and a recent memoir written by an MTF English professor at Stern College. (There was a lot of talk about this in the Jewish press, since Stern College is the women's college of Yeshiva University, which is pretty much THE school for Orthodox students who want to get a good religious education as well as a good secular education, and some of them were really not comfortable with a trans professor.)


Liese S. - Mar 29, 2012 7:39:37 am PDT #28595 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Wow, that wind map is super cool. I could kinda gaze hypnotically at it all day. But what it tells me is that it's a rare quiet spring day for me, and I need to get outside and put some arrows in a target.

I know I get lots less respect as a teacher, but I'm up against the double, because most people don't respect women as musicians either. And to be honest, my chops aren't nearly what the SO's, for example, are. But I do a lot of encouraging young women to play. When I started guitar lessons, it was a huge freaking deal for me to be female and a guitarist.

And any way, at this point, I know I'm a good teacher, so screw 'em if they can't figure that out eventually.


Tom Scola - Mar 29, 2012 7:43:42 am PDT #28596 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I HAZ THE CODEINE!

Also, azithromycin.


Liese S. - Mar 29, 2012 7:44:10 am PDT #28597 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Good. Now get some rest!


tommyrot - Mar 29, 2012 7:44:30 am PDT #28598 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Yay Tom!

Did you manage to avoid potatoes?


smonster - Mar 29, 2012 7:48:58 am PDT #28599 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Whoo, codeine!!

So if it's all about a woman's voice, why is it that men get credit for saying things online that women say repeatedly without acknowledgement (or worse, a hostile response)? Does male typing have more "base"?


Jesse - Mar 29, 2012 7:52:24 am PDT #28600 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Men are just so much more...authoritative. It even comes across online!

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Theodosia - Mar 29, 2012 7:53:26 am PDT #28601 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

4 is way too small a sample because what if the female "professors" SUCKED?

What you want is something like a real professor delivering the lecture behind a screen, hooked up with a voder like Laurie Anderson uses to pitch higher or lower vocal ranges so the students code the voice male or female or undetermined. Then you'd get some interesting results.


Gudanov - Mar 29, 2012 7:55:29 am PDT #28602 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

So if it's all about a woman's voice, why is it that men get credit for saying things online that women say repeatedly without acknowledgement (or worse, a hostile response)? Does male typing have more "base"?

It's because men are just so much more authoritative. It even comes across online.