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2012-04-26, 07:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
It's so true! Tea is hospitality. But that doesn't mean we don't have time to also drink a lot of alcohol.
Yay!
I've always thought that Irish people have to be able to hold it together when drinking phenomenal amounts of alcohol, or otherwise the country would grind to a halt. But I would love to go drinking with Icelanders!
I agree with this.
To compare to feminism (sorry!): we don't actually want you to accept women are equal because we're "just like men". You should accept women are equal because women are equal! Whether they conform to the often masculine-coded things our culture values (being stoic, working long hours outside the home, boy-colours, being technologically adept) or lean towards the feminine-coded things our culture often doesn't value (showing emotion, doing work as a carer, pink, being skilled at fabric crafts). And while we're at it, how about we start valuing feminine-coded things, and stop gender-coding things that don't actually need to be coded.
On the topic of Ireland, we don't go in for lush jungles. More like little copses of trees. Small hills, fields, some ... bigger fields. Old fields that aren't farmed anymore. Lone trees. Limestone. I suppose you could go out and deliberately ignore any houses or people and determinedly starve yourself to death, but it'd be really likely, as you wither away under the careless eye of some sheep that a farmer would come up to you and be all "Howreya? All right there? Starving yourself, is it? Sure it's always drama with the tourists. Givus a shout if you want a cup of tea while you're at it, you mad bastard."
I like you, Nope, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here and assume you're only talking about England, Wales, Scotland or Norn Ireland. Ireland, the Republic of, is not a part of the UK.
It's quite a bit! They're all exams, though. Most of the first nine are just essay exams where you have to write two (or three) essays is an hour and a half. You usually get a choice of two out of four, but you don't know the topics that will come up beforehand. The last one is a practical exam where we get actual rocks to look at and a map to write about.
Dammit Nope!
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2012-04-26, 08:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
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2012-04-26, 09:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
I like tea. It goes well with puzzles.
I like you, Nope, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here and assume you're only talking about England, Wales, Scotland or Norn Ireland. Ireland, the Republic of, is not a part of the UK.
Does "British Isles" work? Or "Ireland/the UK"?
It's quite a bit! They're all exams, though. Most of the first nine are just essay exams where you have to write two (or three) essays in an hour and a half. You usually get a choice of two out of four, but you don't know the topics that will come up beforehand. The last one is a practical exam where we get actual rocks to look at and a map to write about.
Dammit Nope!
Now I don't want to get too political here, but I got an email regarding the Defense of Marriage Act from one of those sites that does petitions to the US government. Anyway, what I wanted to share was its options for gender and sexual orientation:
Originally Posted by Survey Drop-down boxesJude P.
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2012-04-26, 09:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
Because there were people here who wanted a transplanted uterus (hello Lix ):
So I was contacted by a young trans woman who believed I knew something about the uterus transplantation project. She had contacted prof. Brännström and he was too busy for a long conversation but said that it was a clinical possibility to do a uterus transplant to a trans woman (if the proper donors could be found, etc.) She'd have to rely on donated oocytes, however. But he also said that it was an advantage to have semen stored since we may one day be able to turn sperm cells into oocytes. Personally I wouldn't hold my breath on that last part, but he knows more about the field than I do.Avatar by CoffeeIncluded
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2012-04-26, 09:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
"Elephant trunks should be used for elephant things only. Nothing else."
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2012-04-26, 10:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-26, 10:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
@Asta: Good to know.
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2012-04-26, 10:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
Yeah, either of those works! I don't really like the way these two big islands plus all the little ones are called the "British Isles", because, y'know, not Britain over here! But it is their geographical name so I suppose I can't blame you for it! I usually use, and I think most Irish people use, "Ireland and the UK". (I imagine British people would be more inclined to go for "the UK and Ireland" )
Okay, there's 32 mineral specimens, 15 rock specimens, and a made-up map with locations marked. The locations are pretending to be where the 15 rock specimens came from (the map is imaginary, but geologically possible).
In the first part, you name and give the mineral formula for each of the 32 minerals. For example, you pick up a mineral, it's hexagonal, transparent and can't be scraped by a blade - it's quartz! Write down "quartz, SiO2". Next one is purpleish red, also very hard, maybe cubic-ish: garnet, (Fe,Mg)3Al2Si3O12. Gold-coloured imperfect rhombic dodecahedron? Pyrite, FeS. Brownish flakes? Biotite, K(Mg,Fe)3AlSi3O10(OH)2. Basically, we have to know like 50 to 100 chemical formulae plus be able to recognise the mineral.
Then in the second part, you look at the 15 rocks and describe them. "This is a banded mid-to-coarse grained rock, dominantly pink in colour. Grains appear to be mainly quartz, with some feldspars. Pink is likely due to the presence of iron. Small grains of pyrite are visible in bands. This is a banded arkose sandstone." And you look at the map and describe a likely geological history. "The basaltic lava flows are overlying the sandstones, but both are offset by the fault. The sandstones were deposited first, then the lava was the result of volcanic activity. Later, the succession was faulted."
Describing this is making me nervous.
That's not bad at all. An "asexual" option would have been nice, since it's not that rare, but it's a good try!
That sounds very interesting and promising!
Queer is definitely a more general term. Some people identify as queer rather than as specifically "gay" or "bi" or whatever. And I agree that "homosexual" would have made more sense than putting in the gendered options. I think some people (some places?) use "gay" to only mean man-on-man-love, so maybe that's why they put in lesbian as well.
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2012-04-26, 11:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
I will be sure to remember to explicitly include Ireland as a separate and far superior entity in the future.
Okay, there's 32 mineral specimens, 15 rock specimens, and a made-up map with locations marked. The locations are pretending to be where the 15 rock specimens came from (the map is imaginary, but geologically possible).
In the first part, you name and give the mineral formula for each of the 32 minerals. For example, you pick up a mineral, it's hexagonal, transparent and can't be scraped by a blade - it's quartz! Write down "quartz, SiO2". Next one is purpleish red, also very hard, maybe cubic-ish: garnet, (Fe,Mg)3Al2Si3O12. Gold-coloured imperfect rhombic dodecahedron? Pyrite, FeS. Brownish flakes? Biotite, K(Mg,Fe)3AlSi3O10(OH)2. Basically, we have to know like 50 to 100 chemical formulae plus be able to recognise the mineral.
Then in the second part, you look at the 15 rocks and describe them. "This is a banded mid-to-coarse grained rock, dominantly pink in colour. Grains appear to be mainly quartz, with some feldspars. Pink is likely due to the presence of iron. Small grains of pyrite are visible in bands. This is a banded arkose sandstone." And you look at the map and describe a likely geological history. "The basaltic lava flows are overlying the sandstones, but both are offset by the fault. The sandstones were deposited first, then the lava was the result of volcanic activity. Later, the succession was faulted."
Describing this is making me nervous.
That's not bad at all. An "asexual" option would have been nice, since it's not that rare, but it's a good try!
That sounds very interesting and promising!
Queer is definitely a more general term. Some people identify as queer rather than as specifically "gay" or "bi" or whatever. And I agree that "homosexual" would have made more sense than putting in the gendered options. I think some people (some places?) use "gay" to only mean man-on-man-love, so maybe that's why they put in lesbian as well.Jude P.
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2012-04-26, 01:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
*Hugs* That was quick thinking~
I do. >.< *crosses her arms all tantrum-y*
You should combine tea and alcohol, it'll save you time.
I agree with this.
To compare to feminism (sorry!): we don't actually want you to accept women are equal because we're "just like men". You should accept women are equal because women are equal! Whether they conform to the often masculine-coded things our culture values (being stoic, working long hours outside the home, boy-colours, being technologically adept) or lean towards the feminine-coded things our culture often doesn't value (showing emotion, doing work as a carer, pink, being skilled at fabric crafts). And while we're at it, how about we start valuing feminine-coded things, and stop gender-coding things that don't actually need to be coded.
~Bianca
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2012-04-26, 01:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
Those are great! Especially the brain one, HRS as a super-serum sounds like a fun metaphor.
That is sad, although I am glad that awareness is spreading enough for there to be at least one student in there who knew how transphobic it was. ;_;
It is the ninjas, nobody wants to argue superiority with the species that produced ninjas. ._.
Ooh, I must watch that from the beginning of #1! @_@/:ClearlyInsane:
Thanks for linking it, though. Even if it will destroy my free time. ^_^'
Could MRIs see that? I wonder if they could make a way to research brains without needing the patient to be deceased. ^_^
Me! Pick me! I want to see the hugvana!
According to what I have read, the Scotland-England-Wales island is Great Britain, so presumably there is either a Tiny Britain or all the Isles form(ed) a collective Britain!
Is Tiny Britain populated by pixies? :3Treasured Quotes
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2012-04-26, 01:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
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"Elephant trunks should be used for elephant things only. Nothing else."
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2012-04-26, 02:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
Hey, so yesterday I had my End of Course Assessment(ECA testing) for indiana's English 10. That day was the writing prompt. It was about laws making voting mandatory, well, whether we should have them. I pretty much went off, and had an extra body paragraph, and these were a good 200-250+ words each on a timed essay with an average of like six and a half characters, so I'm really proud of it. Especially for a timed essay, and it was actually good too! Not my usual fail timed crap.
In it we were told to use persuasive examples from our personal experiences, general observations, and other things. One of my examples was that my friend Bianca likes to make sure she can make educated voting descisions so she can help with issues close to home. Sorry if I was misrepresenting you, Bianca.
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2012-04-26, 02:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
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2012-04-26, 03:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
Well you are officially a personal experience of mine, congratulations. And I'm glad I was accurate. I also made the analogy of right to vote to marital rights saying that not every Caucasian man from California or New York will marry an African American man because he has the right to both interracial and same sex marriage. But I did make sure to balance the genders of my pronouns, which I was glad I had done reflexively and didn't need to edit them.
And girl, I think about clothes as much as I need to, ie when shopping or getting dressed, and about cute boys all the time (though I don't get boobs, and the closest thing to thinking about cute girls is ranting at my friends' boobs about how I don't get what makes them attractive, I mean sure large breasts are a symbol of fertility, but...).
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2012-04-26, 04:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
That trans woman I told you about. I'm trying to get her to come here so she can meet other LGBTA people in a friendly environment. So if she decides to pop in y'all be nice to her, ok?
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2012-04-26, 04:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
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2012-04-26, 04:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-26, 04:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
My girlfriend's a Fine Arts student, and we've just come up with an awesome idea. Over summer, she'd like to use me as a model to make a project on gender and gender expression!
Dunno if this is going to happen or not, but it sounds like fun if it does!Quotebox
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2012-04-26, 04:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
About the uterus thingy we aren't that far away from being able to clone organs so I wouldn't be surprised that if shortly after the uterus transplanty and the sperm to eggs thingy are ready to be used we would be able to just make a new uterus.
"Elephant trunks should be used for elephant things only. Nothing else."
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2012-04-26, 04:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
I know i'm late to the party (Noes!), but I finally got around to looking at these
1) Awesome. I hope so.
2) This is great and true.
3)
Reads
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Is stunned by the dumb
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Reads Again
Why? But- how?
And one more to be sure
"Ladyboy?" What is that? What even is that?
Honestly aside from the blatant ignorance, insensitivity, and crowd-baiting, the worst thing about this is that this is a man who is supposed to, I assume, be teaching a college course on these sorts of issues. Heck, I went to a nominally Catholic college, and I think there were more knowledgeable and understanding people on the subject there than this nincompoop. If that lesson did not feature a final statement explaining exactly how easily the class had been led down this path of willful and callous stupidity, then there are no words for the level of failure occurring here. This would be like an East Asia "expert" stating that Japan and China are "basically the same country." NNNNNGGGHH!
Ok, after a few deep breaths, I'm better.
All of this talk about college and high school/equivalent essays makes me feel really distressingly old. Hope they go well for everyone!This Minase Iori avatar is a masterwork by Qwernt
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2012-04-26, 05:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
Not actually necessarily a term of abuse. It's a translation of a Thai term, and it's a pretty big subculture over there.
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2012-04-26, 05:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
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2012-04-26, 05:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
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2012-04-26, 05:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
Steam username is Triscuitable.
I got VAC banned in COD: Ghosts for using an FOV changer.
I try not to think of how sad that is.
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2012-04-26, 05:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-26, 05:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-26, 05:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-26, 06:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-26, 06:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
The placenta is partly formed from the uterus but most of it comes from the baby. So that wouldn't be a problem. You'd have to have a modified SRS, because you want somewhere for uterine wall to exit when you menstruate. Yes, the joys of PMS would now be available for trans women.
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