Questions to get to know your friends: What’s your favorite color? What’s your favorite movie? What’s your favorite food? What do you plan on doing after you graduate from high school? What did you do right after graduation? How many children do you want to have when you get married and be a suburban clone? …
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Pets on Skateboards
Threw my one-legged dog in the pannier on the back of my bike. We were going out for one of our rides. He loves to go along with me. I know his emotions because they show on his face—and in his tail. I don’t read his mind. I’m not a dog-mind reader. I just …
Dichotomies are Enemies?
To present it simply, dichotomizing is the practice of trying to divide the human race into two categories. If you try to separate the human race into two distinct groups, you’re dichotomizing. You’ve heard it before. Someone says, “There are two kinds of people in this world: ______________and_____________.” Fill in the blanks with the current …
Project
It’s going to be one of those days. Bare your teeth a little more. Make sure everyone stays far away. Lay yourself down and refuse to move—unless one of the others around you get too close, and then STRIKE! Draw blood if needed. Sink your claws in so deep they won’t forget even long after …
Decorating Reason
“Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.” ~Isaac Asimov Warpgender cisspecies. Cisgender warpspecies. Latentgender crackpipespecies. Absentgender fungalspecies. Such mindless philosophies. The word cisgender makes sense to me, with its meaning of “you are what you are”, but the alternatives people want …
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