I will love him and pet him and call him George.

Good. Sci-fi has been suffering from a dearth of good female writers since so many of the early pioneers have died. It's a boy's playground again after so many brilliant women did such great work. Having an accomplished female author mixing in can only help.

My strategy in the Apple store is to rant online after a particularly frustrating experience, hashtaging and including the @apple as much as possible.

Of course 4chan. Whether you like her music or not, Taylor is a young woman with a prosperous career built on her own creative endeavors. So of course 4chan hates that shit. God forbid a woman be successful at something.

But we discovered aluminum and named it, so that one - like many other things discovered or invented in America - should be pronounced the way we say so.

The internet is publicity - millions of us are on here, you know.

Regarding update #8 - technically, that's:

Nah, I love my mom. I know she loves me, too. It's just the generation she was born in, and she tries very hard to get over what she was taught, so I understand.

Natalie Barney, for sure. And probably Virginia Woolf. Also, I'd make a pass at Jane Austen and Emily Dickinson, just to see what might happen. You never know...

Wow. Yeah, some of my childhood grade reports are a revelation, too. Lots of "doesn't pay attention in class" stuff that was clearly partly about having undiagnosed ADD, and partly about not being the quiet little girl that I was supposed to be.

I'm very excited to see news stories about parents who accept and support their non-gender-conforming kids. It's awesome to see, and especially if it helps kids who truly are trans. There are doctors now who will help surpress puberty until kids are old enough to make informed decisions about who they are, so that…

It sounds like you're doing a great job of not trying to force them into stuff that they're not interested in, and encouraging them to explore stuff that they are...

There's tolerance up to a point for girls. But when girls go beyond the initial "look how cute" reaction, they get a lot of pushback, too. And eventually anger and "know your place" aggression.

Yeah, I want a job there, too. This is so awesome.

It's more dangerous for non-gender-conforming boys, but there is a LOT of pressure on non-gender-conforming girls, too. Believe me. My parents were in despair a lot of the time with me, and they worked really hard to try to get me to conform to gendered activities - latch hook, embroidery, baking, tea, setting the…

Lots less home-making activities, lots more sports and building, engineering, shop-class type activities. Fewer "make friendship bracelets" and more "make fake bow and arrows and shoot air rifles."

In my experience, there was only tolerance to a certain point when I was young. Some boyish clothes were acceptable to my parents. But I got a lot of pressure to play differently than my brothers, and I was taught a lot of gender-conforming role behavior that I was very uninterested in.

As a person in the early stages of FTM transition - there is considerable pressure on gender-nonconforming girls to "wear a dress" and "not get dirty" and to enjoy gendered activities like playing house and sewing, crafting and other traditionally female activities.

Me too - and then I eventually weaned myself off soda, with the exception of an occasional fizzy water when I crave the bubbles. I really think that the fizz was what kept me addicted to and going back to diet soda.

Ha! That is a picture of my baby niece. Girl can eat, I tell you. So proud of her.