Daily Archives: August 21, 2008

Aug
21
2008

Just saying…

….algorithms are sometimes stupid, ok?  Like the one used by the “Gender Genie”….that ALWAYS pronounces me “male.”  Get over yourselves you math geeks, you don’t get to choose my gender by how many of your buzzwords I use, or by my choice of pronouns.
Speaking from a position of power and judgment is apparently not nicely […]

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Aug
21
2008

A Little Light On The Subject

I cannot draw enough attention to this issue, as a veteran, as a woman and a feminist of the old school sort. Please read the “tease” and follow the link!
+++Army Spc. Mickiela Montoya, who was in Iraq for 11 months from 2005-2006, put it another way: “There are only three things the guys let […]

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Aug
21
2008

Thursday Thunder

It is the third day of a storm system moving over us; I appreciate the cool temps and the needed rain. We have been spared much of the thunder and lightening some areas endured, and we have not had our power put out. But thunder we have, all the same—artillery practice is ongoing […]

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