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Dec. 2nd, 2011 10:08 pm Almost went to start reading The Tales Of Alvin Maker and Ender's Game, but clicked on the wikilink for Orson Scott Card...
Suddenly, homophobe republican mormon who thinks that global warming does not exist.
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Jun. 6th, 2010 05:17 pm Okay. I understand why you think the cisgender system and the binary-opposition idea is foolish. But it's something that you can't just boycott. It has too many repercussions.
Take for example the french language. I speak French. I speak it semi-fluently, and on a semi-regular basis. All nouns are either masculine or feminine. No inbetween. If I want to continue speaking the french language, things are going to be masculine, things are going to be feminine.
More so, I do English Literature at school. One of the key focuses? Gender. Masculinity. Femininity. If I boycott the cisgender system and its binary oppositions, I am completely fucked. I will fail the course, because I'll have nothing to talk about in my essays. Especially the ones that have a question specifically regarding gender.
So, embracing the system we have? For reasons such as these? This does not make me a bad person. This makes me a person who understands the flaws in what you're trying to do. Your eventual aim is wonderful, but this is most certainly not the way to do it. Think, children, think.
On that tl;dr note, currently reading The Glasswrights' Apprentice. Mindy L. Klasky. Stupid, stupid woman.
The crown prince is killed by a glasswright, so the king outlaws every glassmaker in the city, burns the glasswrights' guild to the ground, and pretty much destroys them.
DID THE AUTHOR NOT THINK? DID SHE NOT GO "OH WAIT, FUCK, THE ECONOMY OF THIS CITY WITH ITS GLASS WINDOWS AND SUCH IS PROBABLY TOTALLY FUCKING RUINED RIGHT NOW, MAYBE THIS ISN'T A GOOD DECISION FOR MY CHARACTER TO MAKE."? SERIOUSLY. GAH.
Take for example the french language. I speak French. I speak it semi-fluently, and on a semi-regular basis. All nouns are either masculine or feminine. No inbetween. If I want to continue speaking the french language, things are going to be masculine, things are going to be feminine.
More so, I do English Literature at school. One of the key focuses? Gender. Masculinity. Femininity. If I boycott the cisgender system and its binary oppositions, I am completely fucked. I will fail the course, because I'll have nothing to talk about in my essays. Especially the ones that have a question specifically regarding gender.
So, embracing the system we have? For reasons such as these? This does not make me a bad person. This makes me a person who understands the flaws in what you're trying to do. Your eventual aim is wonderful, but this is most certainly not the way to do it. Think, children, think.
On that tl;dr note, currently reading The Glasswrights' Apprentice. Mindy L. Klasky. Stupid, stupid woman.
The crown prince is killed by a glasswright, so the king outlaws every glassmaker in the city, burns the glasswrights' guild to the ground, and pretty much destroys them.
DID THE AUTHOR NOT THINK? DID SHE NOT GO "OH WAIT, FUCK, THE ECONOMY OF THIS CITY WITH ITS GLASS WINDOWS AND SUCH IS PROBABLY TOTALLY FUCKING RUINED RIGHT NOW, MAYBE THIS ISN'T A GOOD DECISION FOR MY CHARACTER TO MAKE."? SERIOUSLY. GAH.
currently on my bookshelf
Apr. 30th, 2010 08:41 pm3 -FAKE- volumes
1 Trinity Blood volume
5 Animorphs books
1 Everworld book
1 Dawn of Amber
1 (5 or so if I actually pick them up off my floor) Black Jewels books
"Boardfree"
Matilda
The Redemption of Althalus
The Dipper of Copper Creek
"Deadly!"
Elminster
Elminster's Daughter
(I also own, digitally, the other few books in the main Elminster series)
Nightmare Hall
Magicians of Caprona
Zagwitz
2 assorted choose-your-own-adventure fantasy books
I Am Not Myself These Days
AIRSHIP
Looking For Alibrandi
Robin Hood
Man About Town
5 Keys To The Kingdom books
5 (12 or so if I pick them up off the floor) Deltora Quest books
Rowan of Rin compilation
Get Over It!
My Undoing
3 Series Of Unfortunate Events books
3 R. L. Stine books
Biceps of Death
The Silmarillion
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
3 assorted Dragonlance books (all the last in their respective series)
The Book Of The New Sun
The Nickel-Plated Beauty
The Sword Of Truth series (also known as "LOOK I AM RICHARD I AM CAPITALISM LET ME SMITE YOUR COMMUNIST WAYS BECAUSE THEY ARE JUST OBVIOUSLY WRONG!")
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Boleyn Inheritance
Send The Stumps Flying
6 assorted Karen Miller non-scifi books
The Castle/Aenir/etc books (compilation)
Mythology
so, what is this? I got 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea in year one. I read and understood it then, and based much of my opinions of future books upon it. I have anime, typical geek books, typical chick-lit, children's books, boring books for boring adults, boring books for boring children, complex books for adults, books about cricket, books about skateboarding, "horror" books, gay-lit books, typical booklover books, romance books, books that no-one I know have managed to get through without falling asleep (literally) and books that are plain odd. And that's just on my personal bookshelf, that other members of the family won't typically peruse. We have a "family" bookshelf three layers deep. In short? I have a scattered personal education.
What I'm really aching for right now, though, is my copy of Colin Thiele's The Fire In The Stone. It's beautifully bound, and is so... Australian. So far off my normal reading.
I found a reference to it in one of our S&E books last year, and just sat, smiling, for the rest of the lesson, remembering.
1 Trinity Blood volume
5 Animorphs books
1 Everworld book
1 Dawn of Amber
1 (5 or so if I actually pick them up off my floor) Black Jewels books
"Boardfree"
Matilda
The Redemption of Althalus
The Dipper of Copper Creek
"Deadly!"
Elminster
Elminster's Daughter
(I also own, digitally, the other few books in the main Elminster series)
Nightmare Hall
Magicians of Caprona
Zagwitz
2 assorted choose-your-own-adventure fantasy books
I Am Not Myself These Days
AIRSHIP
Looking For Alibrandi
Robin Hood
Man About Town
5 Keys To The Kingdom books
5 (12 or so if I pick them up off the floor) Deltora Quest books
Rowan of Rin compilation
Get Over It!
My Undoing
3 Series Of Unfortunate Events books
3 R. L. Stine books
Biceps of Death
The Silmarillion
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
3 assorted Dragonlance books (all the last in their respective series)
The Book Of The New Sun
The Nickel-Plated Beauty
The Sword Of Truth series (also known as "LOOK I AM RICHARD I AM CAPITALISM LET ME SMITE YOUR COMMUNIST WAYS BECAUSE THEY ARE JUST OBVIOUSLY WRONG!")
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Boleyn Inheritance
Send The Stumps Flying
6 assorted Karen Miller non-scifi books
The Castle/Aenir/etc books (compilation)
Mythology
so, what is this? I got 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea in year one. I read and understood it then, and based much of my opinions of future books upon it. I have anime, typical geek books, typical chick-lit, children's books, boring books for boring adults, boring books for boring children, complex books for adults, books about cricket, books about skateboarding, "horror" books, gay-lit books, typical booklover books, romance books, books that no-one I know have managed to get through without falling asleep (literally) and books that are plain odd. And that's just on my personal bookshelf, that other members of the family won't typically peruse. We have a "family" bookshelf three layers deep. In short? I have a scattered personal education.
What I'm really aching for right now, though, is my copy of Colin Thiele's The Fire In The Stone. It's beautifully bound, and is so... Australian. So far off my normal reading.
I found a reference to it in one of our S&E books last year, and just sat, smiling, for the rest of the lesson, remembering.
