Archive for June, 2011
Today’s installment of Charles Responds to Wayward Googlers brings you a brief lesson on trans* history and etiquette. Buckle in! Before I can proceed with today’s episode, I must note that “man becoming a woman” or “woman becoming a man” is an outdated way of phrasing transition which has largely fallen out of favor with [...]
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Just so you know,
Same-sex marriage* is now legal in New York State! Which is tremendous. Now to make the world a genuinely accepting and friendly place for people in under all parts of the rainbow umbrella. Which is significantly harder and takes much longer to accomplish. *People seem to really like calling this “gay marriage,” which I hate. [...]
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When considering good books for asexuals, Boy Proof by Cecil Castellucci was the first to come to mind. It was a very important book for me as a young lad just stumbling into the dark and ominous Adolescent Woods, and for being so it became a kind of behemoth in my memory, a perfect representation [...]
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Asexuality and Christianity
In the great and protracted Are Asexuals Hurt Because They’re Asexual battle (a pretty straightforward if head-scratchingly inexplicable argument that even more inexplicably Just Keeps Going), the issue of asexuality in regards to various religious traditions is often excused by “well, celibacy is always seen as a Good Thing” and then swiftly brushed under the [...]
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If you have spent more than ten minutes in the asexual community, you almost definitely know what Doctor Who is, which is basically the best show to ever exist, about an alien called the Doctor who travels about in his TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension in Space), which is also kind of his wife, across [...]
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