Helen Boyd Kramer's journal on gender and stuff
Just so people know, GenderCrash is cancelled tonight. Not just me, but the whole event, due to the weather.
& I’m still waiting for Betty to get to Andover, sadly. She’s been driving since 10:30, but everyone got on the road once the snow started coming down, so traffic has been hellacious.
I’m going to try not to panic in the meanwhile.
Fuckwads. I think we should name a street after Hassan Askari, or at least get him some protection, because you know someone is going to give him a hard time about standing up for a Jewish guy.
Happy non-denominational holiday season, everyone!
& Why, people, is this such an issue? Wish me a happy Chanukah, a peaceful Kwanzaa, a lovely Christmas, or a light-filled Ramadan. I could not care less which. It’s when someone tells me to drop dead that I have a problem with. The idea that people are getting into fights over wishing someone a good anything BLOWS. MY. MIND.
I’ll be at Gender Crash! in Boston tomorrow night, doing what I do at one of the coolest events the trans community has to offer.
It seemed like a good way to end my semester up in Andover.
2007’s Biggest Loss for the Trans Community
The decision of Becca and Dixie to stop putting on the En Femme Getaway, which served a geographical region no other conference serves, was couples-oriented, spectrum-friendly, and held in an LGBT-friendly town.
A Christian pharmacist, Brian Bundy, was fired by Target for not being willing to dispense Plan B contraception to customers. He’s suing.
How odd. I can’t imagine. You don’t do your job & you get fired. What a weird outcome.
Apparently the folks who write Law & Order did their research; a local scientist & his students recently found gonorrhea in the Gowanus Canal.
But in the 70s, according to The New York Post, it contained typhus, typhoid, & cholera.
I’m not sure if this is better or worse.
2007’s Most Surprising Musical Discovery
ELO.
It really is a feminist joke, isn’t it?
Q: What’s the difference between male cooks and female cooks?
A: Female cooks don’t get paid.
Which may be why they’ve always been giving cooking toys and boys haven’t, as if to say, Really, girls, cooking is FUN! Even though you don’t get paid for it, enjoy it, and then you won’t WANT to get paid to do it! Really!!
2007’s Least Marked Important Pop Culture Anniversary:
The 30th anniversary of the death of Marc Bolan.