Helen Boyd Kramer's journal on gender and stuff
While Darcy was watching a live blog of the E3 press conference by Sony, she noticed that during a demo of a kart racing game where the player can customize their character, they threw in some shame for the crossdressers.
12:44PM “Right now, the two developers are showing off the avatar selection screen. The animation is absolutely adorable. One character has its costume changed to a dress, and it tries to hide, embarrassed.”
As if CDs don’t get it from all sides already.
An old friend reprimanded me for focusing on the used battery part of the vibe I recommended.
What I meant to say was: you have orgasms. Orgasms are great. They are good for you mentally and physically. And learning how your own body experiences pleasure is empowering, sexy, and healthy.
Babeland now has an Affiliates program, & since I regularly recommend sex toys (though usually in the Sex & Sensibility forum of our message boards), I thought it would be a good idea for me to sign up! So the next time you’re in the market for a new toy, if you click on the Babeland link from here, you help support our work, you make Babeland some money for being the cool retailer they are, & you get – orgasms.
Not a bad deal.
For now I wanted to recommend the basic silver bullet vibe : it’s discreet, it works, & it’s a great way to use up your batteries that are too old to do anything else. No, really: a lot of people find they don’t need it at full throttle, so you can use your half-used batteries in it & still get off.
Conservatives Warn Quick Sex Change Only Barrier Between Gays, Marriage
I can’t decide what I think of this. What do you all think? It’s *nearly* funny, but not quite, & I can’t figure out if that’s because there’s something mean coming across.
Rob Williams of KRXQ’s Rob Arnie and Dawn has posted a message on their website: apparently they will be apologizing on Thursday morning, and are staying off the air until then.
A trans guy in Australia wants to play on a men’s professional rugby team.
Crain’s reports that the economic woes of many clothing retailers will result in them dropping their Plus Size lines.
Found here. This makes me laugh really hard because Betty is extraordinarily funny when talking about the cats’ preferences for where & when they like to sit on her. In her spluttery Lewis Black kind of way. & Maybe because of the priorities of whoever created it.
Here’s a world map which shows which governments sponsor homophobia. The yellow/orange/red countries are ones that have anything from the death penalty for homosexual people to some form of imprisonment.
The green/blue countries have some form of legal recognition, either in the form of civil unions or other legal protections.
You can get copies in various languages & in various sizes at the ILGA website.
Bank of America is the 4th sponsor to pull advertising on KRXQ.
In one of the first studies of its kind, economist Christopher Carpenter looked at LGBT students and how they were doing in college relative to their peers.
The good news is that gay men taking their studies very seriously.
The bad news is that bisexual women don’t.
Such information would be “really relevant when considering college and university resource allocations,” he noted. “If (as the increased level of mentorship suggests) we found the positive effects for gay men were driven by access to gay/lesbian/bisexual resource centers, that might mean you should invest more in those centers.”
Or, at the very least, make sure they survive in an era of cutbacks.
“Clearly, gay/lesbian resource centers have become more prominent on campuses over the past couple of decades,” Carpenter noted. “We could be observing that effect. They may increase the connectedness of sexual minority students.”
What is interesting, however, is if the honors students keep coming from the LGBT students, administrators have a way to encourage funding of LGBT center on campus. Theoretically, at least.