Wednesday, August 24, 2016
10 COSAS QUE NO DEBES DECIR A UN ASEXUAL
Video that´s actually quite detailed debunking common myths about asexuals. In Spanish.
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Edits
Sooo the first legit round of edits is done! This is exciting because I do edits using two techniques that I am assured are the most painful and most effective ways of doing it.
1. I leave it alone for a year, not looking at it, then I print it out and mark up the copy.
2. Using the marked-up copy, I retype, word for word, the whole thing.
It's better. It's definitely better. It's still only 37K words, but I think I'm ready to start shopping publishers--I can't afford an agent right now.
1. I leave it alone for a year, not looking at it, then I print it out and mark up the copy.
2. Using the marked-up copy, I retype, word for word, the whole thing.
It's better. It's definitely better. It's still only 37K words, but I think I'm ready to start shopping publishers--I can't afford an agent right now.
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Spanish 101 for people who don't speak any Spanish: pt 3
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
But gender's a social construct...
Just because something is a social construct doesn't make it not real. Laws and marriage are complete constructs. Sex and taxonomy are incomplete models to make sense of actual things going on. Because gender is rooted so firmly in psychology, it is my opinion that we cannot know to what extent it fits into either of these categories.
How can one study the interests of small children and whether more boys prefer robots, army toys, cars and sports; and more girls dolls, fairies, jump rope and games of house, when advertisements, media, and well-meaning parents all have influences in what children play with? How can we know whether any of that influences gender identity without a control group?
Anyway. Instead of working on the assumption that there is nothing real or inherent about gender and invalidating a lot of people's identities, I propose we follow the same model as we do talking about sex and taxonomy: acknowledge the limitations of the system, keep an eye out for how that affects the way we conceptualize it, and continue learning more. Maybe, with sufficient lack of social cues, we'll turn out to be a largely nonbinary society. Maybe not. As they say on Tumblr, it costs $0 to respect other people's labels and identities.
OK, that got saltier than I intended at the end there. Better quit while I'm ahead.
How can one study the interests of small children and whether more boys prefer robots, army toys, cars and sports; and more girls dolls, fairies, jump rope and games of house, when advertisements, media, and well-meaning parents all have influences in what children play with? How can we know whether any of that influences gender identity without a control group?
Anyway. Instead of working on the assumption that there is nothing real or inherent about gender and invalidating a lot of people's identities, I propose we follow the same model as we do talking about sex and taxonomy: acknowledge the limitations of the system, keep an eye out for how that affects the way we conceptualize it, and continue learning more. Maybe, with sufficient lack of social cues, we'll turn out to be a largely nonbinary society. Maybe not. As they say on Tumblr, it costs $0 to respect other people's labels and identities.
OK, that got saltier than I intended at the end there. Better quit while I'm ahead.
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Spanish 101 for people who don't speak any Spanish: pts 1 and 2
I've taken to making a video series on how to speak Spanish!
Vowels:
Tenses:
Vowels:
Tenses:
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