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[moominmuppet]

WTF, Ralph? Today in Incongruity: Nader Accuses Obama of "Talking White"

House to Hold First-Ever Hearing on Transgender Rights

Fewer Albanians Are Becoming Sworn Virgins: An ancient gender-bending tradition is on the wane.

Win points for trolling liberal blogs for McCain!

Former NYC Prosecutor Threw Case to Help Innocent Prisoners -- I'm really curious about the opinions of the lawyers on my friends list. This sounds like he did the right thing, but there's also a lot I don't know about the legal system, and I'd like other viewpoints.

Some interesting perspective on the judge on the obscenity trial who was "accused" of having a porn website (a good example of how porn hysteria is used against even people who don't actually get caught with it)

Taking discussion of GLBT issues to the Evangelical churches -- I don't expect a miraculous reversal, but I do think this is a worthwhile attempt at humanizing the issue for many people who wouldn't other recognize it in the same way.

In other news, got more than 10 hours of sleep last night, still feeling moderately crappy. Argh! Also, I've been at work an hour and a half, and taken 42 calls, between email and phone. I get a bit of masochistic glee out of being that fast, but this is also part of why I have so much more trouble with headaches these days. And we have meetings today to tell us about two more apps we're taking on support for. Damn, I wish our boss gave a crap about us. It was so nice to have Jim, who'd actually stand up for us, and point out that new support means need for more people. NewBoss just bends us over for a harder fucking, trying to smile nice and promise the moon to everyone and anyone. And then we get lectured about our abandon rates on a weekly basis in the staff meeting (the pointless one that takes us off the phones for an hour, thereby ratcheting up the abandon rate that much more *headdesk*).

Yeesh. 11:55am now, 83 calls. That should be a full day's work. I really wish I got paid by the call. Or got to get up and go home when I hit 100. Or something. Still, it's payday today; that's good! And I'm not feeling substantially crappier than this morning, so maybe when I get home all my housecleaning plans will actually happen...

Comments

[wldrose.livejournal.com]

The sworn Virgin thing is truly intersting thing I belive it was pbs that did a documentruy on this a few years past. The thing that got me in that and in every thing I have read about it no one brings up if any of them are lesbian. I just found that odd.

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[redbird]

If I recall the Times article correctly, it said they weren't lesbians. What seems likely is that while some of the women are, they are either completely celibate, with women as well as men, or hiding things very carefully and successfully. (I can't see any reason why this choice would have appealed only to heterosexual women.)

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

It'd be fascinating to be able to find out (although almost impossible at this point) how these women's gender identities differed or didn't differ from other women of the same time period and area before whatever incident caused them to become sworn virgins. In other words, did this particularly draw naturally butch or trans women, or is it something totally different?

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

It sounds like lesbianism is so taboo they weren't really able to explore the topic. I bet if it happens it's very well hidden.

[chandara.livejournal.com]

If you're ever interested in hearing about trans-gender stuff from the perspective of a child, let me know. My dad became trans-gender about 1973. My mom was still with him up until about a year or two before his surgery, and I still spent time with him up until I was 15 or so, so I was around before, during & after.

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

Thanks; at some point that'd be really interesting. I've been affiliated with TransFamily up here for years, so I've heard a lot of perspectives from transfolk and their partners, but very little from their kids.