I got opinions.

Glenn Beck’s running ads for his website now that even Fox doesn’t want him. The pitch is, according to his own words, for viewers who a) like their news on TV, b) want the truth, and c) want to get it now. So he suggests that you watch his show (definitely not the truth), on his website (definitely not TV), between 5-7 (definitely not immediately).

He lists three criteria and meets none of them. How is it people ever saw this man as something other than an idiot?

Maricopa Community Colleges are banning tobacco from campuses effective July 2012. Nicfits to begin immediately, philosophy department to shut down in August.

Do you think necrophiliacs ever have relationship issues? Does the man get annoyed when “How was your day?” goes ignored for once? Yes, I’m assuming the necrophiliac is a male because 99% of those engaged in paraphilias are men.

Warning-Please don’t read this. Really. It’s horrible. I’m an awful person and I blame sexology classes for it. But it is funny.

I’m pretty sure dead girls suck at cuddling. I’m also pretty sure sex is always going to be in the same position, which must get boring. But they must argue too, right?

“Well I don’t KNOW if it’s any good for you if you won’t speak up! Look, I love you, I want to make you happy. Stop giving me the silent treatment, you can’t be mad at me if you never react!”

She, of course, says nothing.

“Well I’m sorry if you’re embarrassed but you have to say something. I don’t know if that’s labial engorgement or post-mortem bruising! Why are you ignoring me?”

End me being a terrible, terrible person. At least for this entry.

No, really, according to comments I recently read the GQ community oppresses the cisgendered world (aka, most of us-people whose sex and gender are congruent by birth). Why? Because they get to choose what they are day by day, they’re more special than the rest of us!

As a sexual health specialist (in training, of course), I can’t help but find the very core of all this debate ridiculous. People are born with a sex (mostly binary being a case of X and Y chromosomes), gender (a spectrum, not a binary) develops over time. It doesn’t even settle in as something that’s permanent for most people before five or six. Plenty of little boys will say they’re going to be mommies, little girls daddies, and change their minds later. And for some people it doesn’t ever become a solid thing. That’s not a choice someone makes, it’s who they are. Gender is a fluid concept that stems from inside the individual. The reason for that we can debate infinitely, but at the end of the day it’s internal and it’s something that isn’t chosen, it just is what it is.

Most people are cis, and good for them, they’ll have a much easier time of it. Some people aren’t, and those people get the short end of the stick societally – especially if their sex doesn’t fit their apparent gender. Intersexuality and gender dysphoria are not readily accepted by most, especially from the cisgender world. In no way does being genderqueer oppress someone cis because they get to “make a choice” on their gender, they don’t have that kind of power. The cisgender world does have that kind of power, and it uses it violently. Just as people have been assaulted for sexual orientation they’ve been assaulted for their gender orientation – even the medical community has been guilty of many a malpractice related to intersexuality, “correcting” genitals that had no actual problems besides being atypical under the guise of mortal danger.

Nobody was ever murdered for being cisgender. That’s not true for everyone else, and to say the former is oppressed by the latter is an exercise in painful ignorance at the absolute best, silent compliance with the oppression that DOES go on now.

Reframe the argument as “bisexuals are oppressing straights because by being bisexual they get to make a choice” and it’s obvious just how ridiculous it is to everyone who wasn’t enraged/frightened by Dragon Age II’s universal love interest system. But because of social ignorance toward gender some people actually think this is an okay argument to make. They still call transgendered folks liars, still attack people who don’t fit into their binary mold, or even claim to be under attack.

They’re wrong, and I pray society finally begins to move on. There are cultures who’ve had third genders for a thousand years now, and yet we can’t manage to find our way there. But we’ll be better people for it once we do.

Sometimes I feel my tenuous grasp on being a heterosexual male slipping. My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic isn’t helping.

I can spend 2500 reward points and get 25 dollars of credit on my card. I can spend 3500 points and get a $25 gift certificate to Amazon.com. Or I can buy 500 points for fifteen dollars, which I can then exchange for 5 dollars in credit!

What the fuck kind of racket is this?!

Crtl-shift-e brings up the tabs group manager in firefox. ctrl-shift-w closes firefox. Who the hell thought this was a good idea?

I watched an episode of Jem on a lark last night. It was truly, truly, truly outrageous, and somewhat confusing.

Like…for some reason this is all a secret identity thing with Jerrica not telling everyone she’s Jem, but at the same time her band puts out music videos featuring both of them, and it’s specifically a song about the confusion she has over whether Rio is really interested in Jerrica or Jem, and it shows her switching between identities.

This secret identity is poorly kept.

Everything about it is unforgivable. EVERYTHING. Misused malformed ellipses, random tildes like an AOL user’s screen name, and blinking size five red comic sans, truly the cardinal sins.

Also…window replacement spam? Really?

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After going to a small youth theatre show I’ve been reminded how much I fucking hate stage parents. I also hate most motherfuckers in theatres (live, in this case) because they don’t know how to act right, but stage parents are the worst of them.

Don’t call out your child’s name during the show. They’re not the only person in the cast, it’s not about them, and it’s a distraction to their performance, and everyone else’s. You also aren’t entitled to photograph the performance, with or without a flash, just because your child is in the show. Don’t get up and leave as soon as your child’s performance is over, that just proves you’re a self-centered asshole and probably only there to bask in your child’s reflected glory.

Let’s just go so far as to say don’t yell things out at all. Applaud, and applaud loudly as warranted. But shut the fuck up as you’re doing it.

Shut the fuck up during the performance especially and restrict speech to whispers during scene changes. If it’s anything musical, save your applause until a number is OVER rather than interrupting it.

Don’t start a last clap contest during scene changes just because you think it’s funny. It’s not cute, nobody’s laughing, we just think you and the other guy doing it with you on the other end of the theatre should be punched in the face and removed from the building. This applies to yelling “encore” after a show that isn’t a musical concert as well. What kind of encore is a play going to have? Are they tacking on an epilogue they write in the back? No? There isn’t any? Did you yell that for any reason besides needing attention? Fuck you.