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2006-11-06 12:39![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexibeastUnfortunately, i didn't end up making it to the Walk against Warming on Saturday afternoon - i could barely stand up when i got up, and was thoroughly knackered by the time ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
naked_wrat and i had walked to sacred_harlot's place (where we had arranged to meet up before heading out). :-(
i realised recently, reading the posts of other people on my f-list, that i post relatively little about my trans stuff. It's partly because i'm very comfortable with my 'bi-gendered' identity; and partly because i've extracted myself from most of the trans-related fora i'd previously been involved with. Most of them were hotbeds of antagonism, nastiness and general unpleasantness. i don't think i've ever come across any other 'community' which is so full of people demanding to have their own identities recognised and respected whilst simultaneously refusing to themselves recognise and respect the identity of others (and in fact, actively disrespecting the identity of others). i suspect that's because the 'trans' umbrella is a very large one, covering all sorts of gender issues; and so of course the 'community' will be a very diverse one. Having said that, however, i also found that many of the online fora i was involved with had all too many MTFs whose behaviour reeked of (expectations of) male privilege1. Which both disturbed and saddened me.
i've been doing a lot more CS-related reading, mostly in the area of the lambda calculus and process calculi. The latter is primarily a result of this post; whilst the former is a result of my continued interest in Haskell. Discussions on the Haskell-cafe e-list often involve theoretical constructs which i'm less-than-familiar with, and so i often find myself off on journeys of discovery in order to understand what the said discussions are actually about. :-) Happily, i'm now at the point where more often than not, i understand the issues at hand. :-) Later today, i'm hoping to finally make a start on that Haskell-based Jabber client project i mentioned in an earlier post.
Finally, i did a tarot reading for myself yesterday. Of late i've been my family's Tarot Person, and doing lots of readings for everyone else but myself. The reading was . . . . thought-provoking. :-) It suggested making changes to my daily life in various ways, the details of which i'm still pondering.
1. For example, dismissing certain women as 'over-emotional'; dismissing critiques of sexist 'humour' as 'over-sensitive'; dismissing the social-personal-political issues of others as "not as important as mine"; and taking a domineering and/or intimidatory position towards others during discussions.
naked_wrat and i had walked to sacred_harlot's place (where we had arranged to meet up before heading out). :-( i realised recently, reading the posts of other people on my f-list, that i post relatively little about my trans stuff. It's partly because i'm very comfortable with my 'bi-gendered' identity; and partly because i've extracted myself from most of the trans-related fora i'd previously been involved with. Most of them were hotbeds of antagonism, nastiness and general unpleasantness. i don't think i've ever come across any other 'community' which is so full of people demanding to have their own identities recognised and respected whilst simultaneously refusing to themselves recognise and respect the identity of others (and in fact, actively disrespecting the identity of others). i suspect that's because the 'trans' umbrella is a very large one, covering all sorts of gender issues; and so of course the 'community' will be a very diverse one. Having said that, however, i also found that many of the online fora i was involved with had all too many MTFs whose behaviour reeked of (expectations of) male privilege1. Which both disturbed and saddened me.
i've been doing a lot more CS-related reading, mostly in the area of the lambda calculus and process calculi. The latter is primarily a result of this post; whilst the former is a result of my continued interest in Haskell. Discussions on the Haskell-cafe e-list often involve theoretical constructs which i'm less-than-familiar with, and so i often find myself off on journeys of discovery in order to understand what the said discussions are actually about. :-) Happily, i'm now at the point where more often than not, i understand the issues at hand. :-) Later today, i'm hoping to finally make a start on that Haskell-based Jabber client project i mentioned in an earlier post.
Finally, i did a tarot reading for myself yesterday. Of late i've been my family's Tarot Person, and doing lots of readings for everyone else but myself. The reading was . . . . thought-provoking. :-) It suggested making changes to my daily life in various ways, the details of which i'm still pondering.
1. For example, dismissing certain women as 'over-emotional'; dismissing critiques of sexist 'humour' as 'over-sensitive'; dismissing the social-personal-political issues of others as "not as important as mine"; and taking a domineering and/or intimidatory position towards others during discussions.
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Date: 2006-11-06 23:06 (UTC)