The plot: Two wandering samurai, Mugen and Jin, get finagled into going on some sort of a mission by a girl named Fuu. Apparently she wants them to look for some kind of "Sunflower Samurai". Well, since the law is after Mugen and Jin, getting out of town seems expedient, and going her direction is as good as any. So begins their grand... uh... adventure.
By now I'm sure you've all seen or heard of this one, since it's been on Cartoon Network. Perhaps you've only seen a few episodes it; perhaps you've seen the whole thing. So, is it as awesome as it gets made out to be? In a word, yes. This was made by Watanabe, the same guy that had a hand in a little show called Cowboy Bebop, and it shows. Comedy? Holding-your-sides, falling-out-of-your-chair good. Action? Off-the-wall stylized combination breakdancing/swordfighting like you've never seen. Anachronisms? Plenty and then some. Music? Well... Ok, it's not entirely perfect. This is one series you don't want to miss. This kind of stuff is the reason people get into watching anime. It's amazingly good.
Kev did send me the questions for the RotW, but I haven't heard from him since I sent him my answers, so... I don't know.
Thanks to all those who congratulated me. I've basically told the recruiting agent to call me any time between 9:00am and 11:30pm this week. I'll be on here a lot more tomorrow with info about the Rennaisance festival and time enough to respond to some things. Tonight, I'm spending some quality time with my brother.
Well, 'House, I guess I'm just saying "hi y'all" after being gone for a while. How's it shaking?
When it comes to hair removal, I'm thinking it shouldn't be a significant problem, except perhaps for the face. I'm fortunate enough to be blonde, and to have light body hair. I don't even really shave with a razor per se. Maybe that's some kind of tradeoff for a deep voice and broad shoulders. (:p)
I don't mind the practice of shaving body hair, but I'm uncomfortable with this unwritten rule that if you're a female, you need to shave your legs. And if you don't, it's like some kind of gross negligence of basic hygiene. But to be honest it's not a concern that's very high up on my list right now.
Mr. Stuff - saw the good news. You must be pretty excited. Good for you.
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All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to be the light that you see. All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to be the peace that you feel. All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to fill your heart on my own.
But the rainbow is an image of hope for many reasons, as it is a brilliant sight coming out of oftimes dismal weather.
Samurai Soldier this weeks ED, is a MUST watch , im posting it too youtube as we speak
furthermore this episode was really emotional. like you could feel tears beginning to form. its taht good
I don't mind the practice of shaving body hair, but I'm uncomfortable with this unwritten rule that if you're a female, you need to shave your legs. And if you don't, it's like some kind of gross negligence of basic hygiene. But to be honest it's not a concern that's very high up on my list right now.
I know a number of girls who don't shave their legs without drawing much comment, but my school is a bit of a hippie school; I know it's not equally acceptable everywhere.
I was quite fortunate to get labor day off; it allowed me to visit my family this weekend.
Well, for me, today is Labor Day, which signals the final day of "freedom" or as others refer to it as "summer". In reality it's basically just saying "put pants on when you sleep for the next 9 months. Oh, no beds either, you gotta sleep on a desk. Hope you like backaches!"
But anyways, as today is my last day for a while to do whatever I want before going back into the "real worlds" again, I'm making many plans to go out all day, and hopefully they won't get me arrested.
The first is very safe, I'm just going to the arcade and playing DDR with a pair of friends for about 2-3 hours. After that it's where I'm going borderline Disorderly Conduct, in front of and in the vicinity to the local police office >_>. Don't ask why, I'm not going to give a long back story unless we do what we plan.
After that, well...it is a holiday, so we are going to sit back, start a bonfire, and shoot off fireworks (and other explosives). I hope we don't get arrested for this either, as I did hear last time my friends did that (while I was away in Germany) they ended up running from the cops for a good 10 minutes after setting off some really loud stuff.
AotW: Samurai Champloo is somewhat of a decent series. I do feel there are a few parts where it is lacking overall in the episodes, but others make up for it (the two funniest episodes IMO are the diary one and the journal one).
Misfile: I haven't really checked that yet, and maybe I will do so later.
Girls and shaving: I don't care if a girl has a little bit of hair on her legs, but I find it unattractive when they have hair thats visible from say, across the room (the good thing for them is that I have such bad vision that I either need my glasses or they need to have lots of hair for me to see it that far). But I still agree that while looks are not as important as the girl's personality, looks many times are one of the first things you notice in them, especially if she doesn't introduce herself to you right away.
Anyways, as I've been typing this, I'm not sure what's going on now, as I got a message from a friend I was supposed to go to the arcade with saying he has to work for a bit because three people working never showed up.
When it comes to hair removal, I'm thinking it shouldn't be a significant problem, except perhaps for the face. I'm fortunate enough to be blonde, and to have light body hair. I don't even really shave with a razor per se. Maybe that's some kind of tradeoff for a deep voice and broad shoulders. (:p)
I don't mind the practice of shaving body hair, but I'm uncomfortable with this unwritten rule that if you're a female, you need to shave your legs. And if you don't, it's like some kind of gross negligence of basic hygiene. But to be honest it's not a concern that's very high up on my list right now.
WB sweety.
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As to shaved legs on women. I agree it generally is not necessary. I have dated a few girls who rairly or at all shave their legs, and it never made them less attractive. Though I admit smooth legs are sexy.
For myself though, I have darker hair and rather hairy legs. I would really like to be able to wear a dress wor skirt without looking like a gorilla. For a Tgirl I believe shaving/waxing your legs is far more important than if you are a natural girl, simply because we can't afford to have such an obvious tell. There are so many masculine traits we have we cannot fix easily, our leg hair is one which is moderately easy. We should take all the small victories we can get.
I work today (boooo) and there are no busses today (bigger booooo) so I had to walk. I wore my new shoes today. I had fixed them from pinching by cutting the bit that was binding my big toe. Now the look like a rather nice pait of open toed shoes. They fit perfectly.
Until I had walked halfway to work and something started cutting into my toes.....
So now my toes are bleeding and I likely will be having to spring for a taxi to get home tonight.
Why is it so freaking hard to find shoes that don't make me look like a nurse !!!!!
It's part of modern American/Western culture. African and Asian women don't have a tendency to have a lot of body hair, so it isn't really an issue in those lands... Once upon a time, hemlines were low and women didn't need to worry so much about hairy legs driving men away; by the time a guy knew her legs were hairy, he was already in the sack with her, so things were different. But then skirts got short, stockings grew in fashion, and women were convinced that a smooth leg was hygienic as well as feminine. Actually, a smooth leg did less damage to silk stockings than a hairy one.
It's a chore, and that's why pantsuits are always in fashion, because sometimes you don't feel like spending 20 extra minutes raking away at your shinbones with a blade.
But 100+ years of Western pop culture imagery and advertising showing only smooth legs on women has conditioned guys to prefer it as the hygienic norm for females. They would be shocked to travel back in time to the days of their great-grandmothers, and see that even sultry belles and winsome frontier dairy maids had hairy legs underneath all those petticoats and bustles.
I guess one of the reasons I shave is that, as much as I hate being bound to social customs, and as much as I try to stray form them and even considering how against stuff like that i am, shaving my body is one of the things in my life that makes me 'feel' more feminine, I guess. I do like my legs smooth regardless, but it just seems to me that the very act of shaving makes me feel less like a boy, i guess. thats my reason behind it anyway. I don't think that girls should be expected to shave, I don't think anyone should. I just feel that since everything else has worked against me so far, I'm going to use the system to make myself feel better about myself for once, instead of worse.
Edit: Does anyone else here that goes to GameFAQS often think the character battle thing has grown into a monotonous yearly thing, and is sick of it?
For a Tgirl I believe shaving/waxing your legs is far more important than if you are a natural girl, simply because we can't afford to have such an obvious tell.
Why, because if you don't "pass", you aren't being a good transwoman?
That has a certain air of heteronormativism to it.
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I agree Photon. But unfortunately being able to pass effectively makes a big difference on your own esteem and resolve. Should I just start calling myself a girl but keep my old name and manner of dress? What does it matter if I call myself Scott, why should I let society dictate that is a boys name. Its my name, I've lived with it for 30 years. Why should I pic something more feminine?
These things also make you feel better about yourself. Being able to look ata yourself or touch yourself and see or feel feminine is very self afirming.
People take their gender for granted. You wake up, you are a boy. You do not have to think about it or put any effort into it. I wake up, and I have to decide whether this is all worth the effort. I have to fight the voices in my head echoing years of genderisms and weave through and decide if this is truly me. Is this all worth it? Their are certain things which are labelled masculine and certain things labelled feminine. Each thing that I carry which is of the masculine nature is like a stigmatta, and each feminine thing I can call my own is like a badge of honor.
When it comes down to it. Whether or not I fight, I am ultimately a woman. To deny that is to deny me. To perpetuate a lie. If there was not so much expectation on being a certain gender, would I still be transgenderred? If we all dressed the same, acted the same, and had the same selection of names regardless of our body parts...would I be transgenderred? I would not have grown up dysphoric. No confusion. I would just be me. The problem is there are certain things about being female which on the level of nature seperates us, on the emotional and intellectual level. I never felt I fit in with males, and having a male body made fitting in with women difficult.
So in order for me to be what I feel inside, I need to fight as hard as I can to present myself to others as I feel inside. To feel good about myself I need to be able to look in the mirror and feel happy with what I see.
You know, I was gunna reply with something similar to that, but that was like, 100K times better than I could have put it, Sakura-chan
heh
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I totally agree btw, every little thing counts. My hair, what I've done with my voice, my friends starting using female pronouns, my purse, all of that, every little bit makes me feel more, well, whole. less like a shell of a person and more like someone who doesn't have to live out who she is on a computer screen.
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"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown" ~ H. P. Lovecraft
This morning, my dad, my brother's and I went to my grandparent's house to shingle their new garage. We'd been working there for a few hours and just finished lunch when my grandpa fell off a ladder that he was using to line up the outer row of shingles. None of us were looking when he fell, but we heard the ladder crash and my dad ran down. He was unconscious for 5-10 seconds and then he started moaning repeatedly for a few minutes. My dad called my grandma and told her to call 911. The back of his head was bleeding, apparently his head had hit the concrete first, because that was all that was hurt. I got my dad two towels for the bleeding, but luckily he didn't hardly need one of them because the bleeding stopped. He was able to speak after a little while, but couldn't remember what he had been doing when he fell. My dad had to remind him repeatedly what he had been doing. By the time the ambulance arrived he had no trouble remembering what had happened or communicating with the police who came. Right now he's still in the hospital and it looks like he'll be fine, hopefully there aren't any complications.
I have to go to work really soon, so I'll see you all later.
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I'll bet you wish you had a non-unglued/unhinged card that shared your first name.
This morning, my dad, my brother's and I went to my grandparent's house to shingle their new garage. We'd been working there for a few hours and just finished lunch when my grandpa fell off a ladder that he was using to line up the outer row of shingles. None of us were looking when he fell, but we heard the ladder crash and my dad ran down. He was unconscious for 5-10 seconds and then he started moaning repeatedly for a few minutes. My dad called my grandma and told her to call 911. The back of his head was bleeding, apparently his head had hit the concrete first, because that was all that was hurt. I got my dad two towels for the bleeding, but luckily he didn't hardly need one of them because the bleeding stopped. He was able to speak after a little while, but couldn't remember what he had been doing when he fell. My dad had to remind him repeatedly what he had been doing. By the time the ambulance arrived he had no trouble remembering what had happened or communicating with the police who came. Right now he's still in the hospital and it looks like he'll be fine, hopefully there aren't any complications.
I have to go to work really soon, so I'll see you all later.
wow, I hope he'll be OK. Scary when something like that happens. Sounds lke he got a hefty concussion out of it, hopefully nothing more. I certainly hope whatever caused him to fall in the first place isnt going to repeat itself either...older people can sometimes develop heart troubles or mini-strokes or vertigo that makes them temporarily dizzy.
Wow Koal, that sux. Sounds like he will likely be ok though. But still, I imagine it was pretty freaky.
@Fooly/Independance Day : That was a really good movie for an Alien Invasion flick The movie is of special importance to me, because it is the movie that made Mary MacDonald first choice as the President in Battlestar Galactica. The role was written specifaclly like her. Early scripts actually described the character as Mary MacDonald-like. They were amazed they could actually get her actually. Galactica is one of my favorite shows on TV right now.
But unfortunately being able to pass effectively makes a big difference on your own esteem and resolve
No, being able to pass effectively makes a big difference on YOUR own self esteem and resolve. Stop making generalist statements. Just like there are women who refuse to take part in activities society has deemed appropriate for their gender, there are also transgendered individuals who do the same.
You said it is important for a tgirl to shave her legs. What you should have said is that it is important for YOU as a tgirl to shave YOUR legs, instead of espousing the importance of following social traditions to which not even cisgendered women are required to adhere.
Quick story from me:
This morning, my dad, my brother's and I went to my grandparent's house to shingle their new garage. We'd been working there for a few hours and just finished lunch when my grandpa fell off a ladder that he was using to line up the outer row of shingles. None of us were looking when he fell, but we heard the ladder crash and my dad ran down. He was unconscious for 5-10 seconds and then he started moaning repeatedly for a few minutes. My dad called my grandma and told her to call 911. The back of his head was bleeding, apparently his head had hit the concrete first, because that was all that was hurt. I got my dad two towels for the bleeding, but luckily he didn't hardly need one of them because the bleeding stopped. He was able to speak after a little while, but couldn't remember what he had been doing when he fell. My dad had to remind him repeatedly what he had been doing. By the time the ambulance arrived he had no trouble remembering what had happened or communicating with the police who came. Right now he's still in the hospital and it looks like he'll be fine, hopefully there aren't any complications.
There is probably some risk of concussion there, but it sounds like he made it out pretty well. Still, things like that are scary, since so often little innocuous activities like that can turn fatal out of nowhere.
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The majority of shoes which will fit me look like something a 60 year old nurse virgin would wear.
@Photon : Yes you are right. Definately. We are all different people and handle things differently. My statements were meant to be alot less general than they seemed, but if I make all my statements as if they were solely about me then that would be selfish.
While how I handle things is a reflection of me, the reason is the same for everyone. We all wake up every morning and have to decide how we handle this. We all have to work within societies conceptions of gender and choose how they best fit our feelings and needs.
Personally, I love and feel most comfortable living alot of these stereotypes. However, there are also alot of female gender stereotypes I don't feel happy with. Not alot of girls would play video games or roleplaying games or collect comics.
Sometimes I catch myself doing something which would seem steretypical and I stop for a moment. But I am choosing to act this way because its the way I want or need to act. It has nothing to with how the world wishes me to be, its about me. It may be partially shaped within my mind due to upbringing, but still it is what makes me happy.
It's time for...
ANIME OF THE WEEK
Series: Samurai Champloo
Episodes: 26
Genre(s): Action - Historical - Parody - Comedy
The plot: Two wandering samurai, Mugen and Jin, get finagled into going on some sort of a mission by a girl named Fuu. Apparently she wants them to look for some kind of "Sunflower Samurai". Well, since the law is after Mugen and Jin, getting out of town seems expedient, and going her direction is as good as any. So begins their grand... uh... adventure.
By now I'm sure you've all seen or heard of this one, since it's been on Cartoon Network. Perhaps you've only seen a few episodes it; perhaps you've seen the whole thing. So, is it as awesome as it gets made out to be? In a word, yes. This was made by Watanabe, the same guy that had a hand in a little show called Cowboy Bebop, and it shows. Comedy? Holding-your-sides, falling-out-of-your-chair good. Action? Off-the-wall stylized combination breakdancing/swordfighting like you've never seen. Anachronisms? Plenty and then some. Music? Well... Ok, it's not entirely perfect. This is one series you don't want to miss. This kind of stuff is the reason people get into watching anime. It's amazingly good.
And oh yeah.. RotW has almost died. Can someone pick this up for me?
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Here's the link you're missing: #40: The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhui
Samurai Champloo should be #41.
Kev did send me the questions for the RotW, but I haven't heard from him since I sent him my answers, so... I don't know.
Thanks to all those who congratulated me. I've basically told the recruiting agent to call me any time between 9:00am and 11:30pm this week. I'll be on here a lot more tomorrow with info about the Rennaisance festival and time enough to respond to some things. Tonight, I'm spending some quality time with my brother.
Oyasumi. ('night)
When it comes to hair removal, I'm thinking it shouldn't be a significant problem, except perhaps for the face. I'm fortunate enough to be blonde, and to have light body hair. I don't even really shave with a razor per se. Maybe that's some kind of tradeoff for a deep voice and broad shoulders. (:p)
I don't mind the practice of shaving body hair, but I'm uncomfortable with this unwritten rule that if you're a female, you need to shave your legs. And if you don't, it's like some kind of gross negligence of basic hygiene. But to be honest it's not a concern that's very high up on my list right now.
Mr. Stuff - saw the good news. You must be pretty excited. Good for you.
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as for me
im going Gnarls barkely crazy, its 3 hours after the LS raw is ussually out, and none in sight
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
on a sidenote i went 4-2 in the premier event forced to play round 6 and got CRUSHED by ichorid.
gimme my lucky star NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
on a serious note, descendat of kiyomaru is officially jank, and aven mindcensor has become my favorite card ever.
furthermore this episode was really emotional. like you could feel tears beginning to form. its taht good
I was quite fortunate to get labor day off; it allowed me to visit my family this weekend.
anyways im going to sleep now and fantasy football draft in 7 freaking hours
obscene i know but
shout out to mr stuff for the site WOOT!!!!!!!
But anyways, as today is my last day for a while to do whatever I want before going back into the "real worlds" again, I'm making many plans to go out all day, and hopefully they won't get me arrested.
The first is very safe, I'm just going to the arcade and playing DDR with a pair of friends for about 2-3 hours. After that it's where I'm going borderline Disorderly Conduct, in front of and in the vicinity to the local police office >_>. Don't ask why, I'm not going to give a long back story unless we do what we plan.
After that, well...it is a holiday, so we are going to sit back, start a bonfire, and shoot off fireworks (and other explosives). I hope we don't get arrested for this either, as I did hear last time my friends did that (while I was away in Germany) they ended up running from the cops for a good 10 minutes after setting off some really loud stuff.
AotW: Samurai Champloo is somewhat of a decent series. I do feel there are a few parts where it is lacking overall in the episodes, but others make up for it (the two funniest episodes IMO are the diary one and the journal one).
Misfile: I haven't really checked that yet, and maybe I will do so later.
Girls and shaving: I don't care if a girl has a little bit of hair on her legs, but I find it unattractive when they have hair thats visible from say, across the room (the good thing for them is that I have such bad vision that I either need my glasses or they need to have lots of hair for me to see it that far). But I still agree that while looks are not as important as the girl's personality, looks many times are one of the first things you notice in them, especially if she doesn't introduce herself to you right away.
Anyways, as I've been typing this, I'm not sure what's going on now, as I got a message from a friend I was supposed to go to the arcade with saying he has to work for a bit because three people working never showed up.
Well Ive got to sleep now but Ill stay for awhile..anyone here?
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WB sweety.
* Sakura Hugs
As to shaved legs on women. I agree it generally is not necessary. I have dated a few girls who rairly or at all shave their legs, and it never made them less attractive. Though I admit smooth legs are sexy.
For myself though, I have darker hair and rather hairy legs. I would really like to be able to wear a dress wor skirt without looking like a gorilla. For a Tgirl I believe shaving/waxing your legs is far more important than if you are a natural girl, simply because we can't afford to have such an obvious tell. There are so many masculine traits we have we cannot fix easily, our leg hair is one which is moderately easy. We should take all the small victories we can get.
I work today (boooo) and there are no busses today (bigger booooo) so I had to walk. I wore my new shoes today. I had fixed them from pinching by cutting the bit that was binding my big toe. Now the look like a rather nice pait of open toed shoes. They fit perfectly.
Until I had walked halfway to work and something started cutting into my toes.....
So now my toes are bleeding and I likely will be having to spring for a taxi to get home tonight.
Why is it so freaking hard to find shoes that don't make me look like a nurse !!!!!
It's a chore, and that's why pantsuits are always in fashion, because sometimes you don't feel like spending 20 extra minutes raking away at your shinbones with a blade.
But 100+ years of Western pop culture imagery and advertising showing only smooth legs on women has conditioned guys to prefer it as the hygienic norm for females. They would be shocked to travel back in time to the days of their great-grandmothers, and see that even sultry belles and winsome frontier dairy maids had hairy legs underneath all those petticoats and bustles.
i just woke up to find myself @ pick 15 in a fantasy football money draft, oh well, at least it didnt turn out THAT badly
Edit: Does anyone else here that goes to GameFAQS often think the character battle thing has grown into a monotonous yearly thing, and is sick of it?
Why, because if you don't "pass", you aren't being a good transwoman?
That has a certain air of heteronormativism to it.
These things also make you feel better about yourself. Being able to look ata yourself or touch yourself and see or feel feminine is very self afirming.
People take their gender for granted. You wake up, you are a boy. You do not have to think about it or put any effort into it. I wake up, and I have to decide whether this is all worth the effort. I have to fight the voices in my head echoing years of genderisms and weave through and decide if this is truly me. Is this all worth it? Their are certain things which are labelled masculine and certain things labelled feminine. Each thing that I carry which is of the masculine nature is like a stigmatta, and each feminine thing I can call my own is like a badge of honor.
When it comes down to it. Whether or not I fight, I am ultimately a woman. To deny that is to deny me. To perpetuate a lie. If there was not so much expectation on being a certain gender, would I still be transgenderred? If we all dressed the same, acted the same, and had the same selection of names regardless of our body parts...would I be transgenderred? I would not have grown up dysphoric. No confusion. I would just be me. The problem is there are certain things about being female which on the level of nature seperates us, on the emotional and intellectual level. I never felt I fit in with males, and having a male body made fitting in with women difficult.
So in order for me to be what I feel inside, I need to fight as hard as I can to present myself to others as I feel inside. To feel good about myself I need to be able to look in the mirror and feel happy with what I see.
So I shave my legs.
heh
*hugs*
I totally agree btw, every little thing counts. My hair, what I've done with my voice, my friends starting using female pronouns, my purse, all of that, every little bit makes me feel more, well, whole. less like a shell of a person and more like someone who doesn't have to live out who she is on a computer screen.
i forgot how good this movie was
to everyone who hasnt seen it, Independence Day is a must watch, prob the best sci fi movie from the 90's, bar none.
best line ever "Aw hell naw, i know you aint shooting that green (expletive) at me"
lol
This morning, my dad, my brother's and I went to my grandparent's house to shingle their new garage. We'd been working there for a few hours and just finished lunch when my grandpa fell off a ladder that he was using to line up the outer row of shingles. None of us were looking when he fell, but we heard the ladder crash and my dad ran down. He was unconscious for 5-10 seconds and then he started moaning repeatedly for a few minutes. My dad called my grandma and told her to call 911. The back of his head was bleeding, apparently his head had hit the concrete first, because that was all that was hurt. I got my dad two towels for the bleeding, but luckily he didn't hardly need one of them because the bleeding stopped. He was able to speak after a little while, but couldn't remember what he had been doing when he fell. My dad had to remind him repeatedly what he had been doing. By the time the ambulance arrived he had no trouble remembering what had happened or communicating with the police who came. Right now he's still in the hospital and it looks like he'll be fine, hopefully there aren't any complications.
I have to go to work really soon, so I'll see you all later.
wow, I hope he'll be OK. Scary when something like that happens. Sounds lke he got a hefty concussion out of it, hopefully nothing more. I certainly hope whatever caused him to fall in the first place isnt going to repeat itself either...older people can sometimes develop heart troubles or mini-strokes or vertigo that makes them temporarily dizzy.
@Fooly/Independance Day : That was a really good movie for an Alien Invasion flick The movie is of special importance to me, because it is the movie that made Mary MacDonald first choice as the President in Battlestar Galactica. The role was written specifaclly like her. Early scripts actually described the character as Mary MacDonald-like. They were amazed they could actually get her actually. Galactica is one of my favorite shows on TV right now.
You said it is important for a tgirl to shave her legs. What you should have said is that it is important for YOU as a tgirl to shave YOUR legs, instead of espousing the importance of following social traditions to which not even cisgendered women are required to adhere.
There is probably some risk of concussion there, but it sounds like he made it out pretty well. Still, things like that are scary, since so often little innocuous activities like that can turn fatal out of nowhere.
The majority of shoes which will fit me look like something a 60 year old nurse virgin would wear.
@Photon : Yes you are right. Definately. We are all different people and handle things differently. My statements were meant to be alot less general than they seemed, but if I make all my statements as if they were solely about me then that would be selfish.
While how I handle things is a reflection of me, the reason is the same for everyone. We all wake up every morning and have to decide how we handle this. We all have to work within societies conceptions of gender and choose how they best fit our feelings and needs.
Personally, I love and feel most comfortable living alot of these stereotypes. However, there are also alot of female gender stereotypes I don't feel happy with. Not alot of girls would play video games or roleplaying games or collect comics.
Sometimes I catch myself doing something which would seem steretypical and I stop for a moment. But I am choosing to act this way because its the way I want or need to act. It has nothing to with how the world wishes me to be, its about me. It may be partially shaped within my mind due to upbringing, but still it is what makes me happy.
I am enjoying my labor dabor. Been watching Daria all weekend. Love the show.
Oh, and I've been fortunate to find these two lovely pictures of Jhoira. You'll notice the first is a request for it colored. Anyone?
Okay, I'm off to finish season 5 of Daria. Just remember: Todayborday is a Labor Day!
edit: Wow, that's scary, KK. Glad it turned out better than it could've been..
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