I didn’t ask what your actual first name is, I asked if it was “tha,” pointing out that it’s a bit silly to suggest that thinking my username sounding feminine to you has anything to do with what a producer thought of my real name. ; )

Is your first name tha?

Degree in genetics and a degree in English, then?

You forgot TC Boyle.

Isaac Asimov’s intro to Tiptree’s Houston, Houston, Do You Read? in a volume of Hugo winners was priceless. It was after that win that Alice Sheldon’s identity became known, and so he was musing about which pronoun was appropriate to use for someone who was now known to be a woman but who chose to write as a man. So…

My first name is androgynous, for which I have often been quite grateful. I once had a screenplay optioned by a producer who did not find out that I was a woman until after he called me after months of corresponding about rewrites. He thought I was my secretary.

Little Girls in Pretty Boxes laid bare the abusive culture of elite gymnastics in 1995. The sport responded by making it worse in pretty much every way.

What’s life like on your planet?

Collusion is not important. Obstruction of justice and money laundering are. One of the best ways to launder large sums of money is through real estate, and a truly remarkable number of condos in Trump properties are bought by anonymous shell corporations for cash only to be flipped. The bank to whom Trump owns…

And yet, the biggest three cable news networks had only devoted about 20 minutes to it between them as of Monday, presumably because young girls being molested by authority figures isn’t really big news.

Alternately, it would prevent more harm from coming to current and future athletes, because there is no reason to think that Nassar is an isolated case, just the worst and most high profile one.

Done.

On every story about immigration, I’m going to post about how birth tourism companies sell the pregnant wives of Russian oligarchs $75,000+ packages that include a stay in Trump properties, so they can give birth in the US, so their children will have dual citizenship.

Reading the Bloomberg article about how Duterte has weaponized Facebook gave me chills.

I am beginning to doubt it. Most Americans don’t realize that the Facebook-driven fake news problem is actually worse in other parts of the world. In Myanmar, Facebook has fueled a genocide. In the Philippines, a vicious dictator has weaponized Facebook to deadly effect. Trump is just the most famous and powerful…

Sigh, that’ll change if Trump lets Sinclair Broadcasting, which is owned by a supporter, to buy 70% of local news stations.

He was appointed as FBI Director by Bush, and was so good he was asked to stay a little longer by Obama even though he’d already served more than the 10-year term limit imposed after J. Edgar Hoover’s reign of terror ended, a request that was praised by pretty much everyone at the time. His record, going back to his…

What part of he bullied the girls who complained to him about how the doctor in the back room of his gym was sticking his fingers in their vaginas do you not understand? They tried to tell him, and he punished them for it. He deserves to burn in hell.

Oddly enough, a number of osteopaths have recently felt compelled to post publicly about how while there actually are one or two legit procedures in which they intravaginally penetrate someone, they are both rare and related to problems with the pelvic floor, which is an issue for post-partum women, not pre-pubescent…

This is yet another story about the extremely abusive culture of US competitive gymnastics, as exemplified by Geddert and the Karolyis, which is what allowed Nassar to get away with his crimes for so long, both because the athletes were terrified to speak up because girls were cut for “attitude problems” all the time…