Marco: Do we look reasonable to you? Mal: Well. Looks can be deceiving. Jayne: Not as deceiving as a low down dirty... deceiver.

'Out Of Gas'


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.


Sue - Mar 30, 2012 7:33:44 am PDT #28796 of 30001
hip deep in pie

Sure, but by dumping them on the road?

Those were loonies and toonies. They got a big magnet in to get those back.


Laura - Mar 30, 2012 7:34:34 am PDT #28797 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

The research team was unable to find a more suitable way of getting the information required for this study other than to deceive

That is so very wrong. The range of emotions your sister had to endure because of their 'research' is ridiculous.


Strix - Mar 30, 2012 7:34:42 am PDT #28798 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

....And don't subjects of a study have to sign a form?


erikaj - Mar 30, 2012 7:35:05 am PDT #28799 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!

I wish there were more gender-neutral/family bathrooms for when I go out with my dad. Although, considering how often that's happened lately, it wouldn't be a paradigm-shifter.


Hil R. - Mar 30, 2012 7:35:30 am PDT #28800 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

The research team was unable to find a more suitable way of getting the information required for this study other than to deceive

What? How the hell did that pass the review board?


brenda m - Mar 30, 2012 7:36:14 am PDT #28801 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

All the news out of Canada today is craxy. There's also this guy: [link]


erikaj - Mar 30, 2012 7:36:54 am PDT #28802 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!

Ethics. Ur doin' it wrong. holy shit, ita and itasister.


Liese S. - Mar 30, 2012 7:37:32 am PDT #28803 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

WTF STUDENT?


§ ita § - Mar 30, 2012 7:49:52 am PDT #28804 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Okay, thank god my sister is going ballistic right now, because I want some company closer to the issue.

She's started doing her own research, and she can't find the person who's supposed to be in charge of this "study".

The letter does say that she can approve or deny them use of her emails (and recorded hour long coversation!) if she wants, but she's quite rightfully trying to work out who the fuck these people are.

The university they claim to be from is a religious one (7th Day Adventist), and she's wondering if that has anything to do with anything.

This email serves to inform you that you were part of a study undertaken by a group of MSc. Students at the Northern Caribbean University. The study is designed to test whether staff members at tertiary institutions across Jamaica engage in heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual relationships with students.

Hey, thanks for that heads up!

God, I'm pissed.


Jessica - Mar 30, 2012 7:50:22 am PDT #28805 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I think this challenge is geared towards people with less awareness of how the bathroom issue effects people.

Unfortunately, I think most people who will take this up are people who are already aware of trans bathroom issues, so unless other cis people talk about whether or not they're going to the bathroom way more often than in my circle of friends, this is not going to work as an awareness campaign.

I don't know how any study like that gets through a research/ethics board.

Yeah, that seems really sketchy. How could you possibly publish the results of something like that?