Vanity sizing is nothing new. And no matter how hardened we are to it, there is a secret little thrill to getting into something the next size down. That’s why they do it, of course. The thing that *really* miffs…
Category: Opinion
Does a rose by 58 other names smell as sweet?
Facebook recently vastly expanded the gender option you can select for yourself on your profile, adding a bewildering 56 additional gender declarations to the more traditional “male” and “female”. Well, for users of US English anyway; those of us who…
(whispers) I’m Joanne
My work has taken me back down to Hedge End on a regular basis, and I was in Sainsbury’s Hedge End recently, which was where the Brides in the Aisles photo shoot was. I saw the young Sainsbury’s employee who…
But I have wings
I recently saw this quote on Facebook and it struck a chord with me. I think one reason it struck a chord is because it rather sums up the ‘support’ I get from my family. If I fold my…
Same Love
I heard Macklemore’s “Same Love” on the radio today for the first time. I confess I didn’t know of it until now – sorry for being so late to the party here. My initial reaction was that it’s a positive…
Follow you, follow me – Flickr changes
I see that today Flickr has renamed ‘Contacts’ to ‘Following’. I know a lot of people hate change, but this makes a lot of sense to me because that’s what it has actually always been in all but name. Contacts…
Gender roles
A little while ago I discovered The Advocate, with some of the articles really making me think and some of them blowing my mind, such as the one that suggested that the fundamental flaw in being transgendered and trying to pass as…
Give us the money!
Hmmm. I see that WordPress have started to put adverts on my blog posts, and say they will continue to do so unless I pay them $30 per year to turn them off. Which is fair enough – they have…
Apparently sane
I had a very productive session with the Counsellor today. Mostly it just confirmed what I already knew and had already worked out; that perhaps you don’t need to have a destination in order to enjoy a journey. And if…
Ma heeed
I’ve got an appointment with a Counsellor who specialises in Gender Identity issues this Saturday. Probably no prizes for guessing who they are since it’s a very small world. I’m not entirely sure why I made the appointment, to be…