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I was pointed at the following article earlier:

http://www.popall.co.uk/news/2000/pubpaysdamagestobannedsexswapdrinker.asp

Original article under cut )

I'm pleased that the trans woman concerned won damages. However, the tone of the article is mightily offensive.

That this comes from a group of solicitors is deeply troubling, they ought to know better than to be apparently siding with discrimination against trans people.

The excuse given "…all businesses will now have to go out of their way to ensure they do not offend [transsexuals]. The effect will be more bureaucratic worry for firms already struggling with red tape…" is oh so reminiscent of those used when the race relations act was brought in.

It's not a bureaucratic nightmare to treat people like human beings, it's actually quite simple to treat people with dignity and respect. It's more difficult, time consuming, and ultimately expensive to treat folks like they are a lump of dogshit stuck to your shoe.

ETA: A bit of digging, as it's not immediately obvious, is that the article is from May 4th, 2000. However, the point still stands that it attitude of the solicitors is and remains unacceptable.
23rd-Oct-2009 10:05 pm - O RLY?
alice_consall

Your result for The Intellectual Sexiness Test...

Hot Tamale

You have an intellectual sexiness factor of 72!

You're hot! You've read a lot. You've done a lot, and there's a lot you'd like to try in the future. You've got a sharp, sexy mind, and few inhibitions to restrain you from exploring all the pleasure you can get. You have few hang-ups, and there's not much you don't know about sex. You're open-minded and able to enjoy things that would make a lesser person squeamish.

You're an exceptional treat as a lover, appreciated greatly by those who know the differnce. You were probably bored with a few of the people you've been with in your past, feeling like you had to drag them along with you in the sexual adventures you want to have, and probably dumping them for the same reason. It takes a lot to stimulate you; you realize it's not just about bumping uglies. In the end there's gotta be a lot more to it.

Still, there is always room for improvement. Before you can graduate into a true sexual genius, there are a few things you've got to learn, to explore, to think through, talk through, and fuck through. A good place to start is in taking a look at the few things you're still a little hesitant to try. Break down you're last few barriers and discover the outer sexual frontiers, and you'll become a master.

Take The Intellectual Sexiness Test at OkCupid

21st-Oct-2009 11:44 pm - Meeeeeme
alice_consall
And this is unexpected? )
23rd-Aug-2009 02:05 pm - Meme ganked from [info]gipsy_dreamer
alice_consall
Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. List 15 books you've read that will always stick with you. They should be the first 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
  1. Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
  3. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  4. 1984 – George Orwell
  5. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  6. Animal Farm – George Orwell
  7. The City and the Stars – Arthur C. Clarke
  8. Tess of the D'Urbevilles – Thomas Hardy
  9. Le Mort D'Arthur – Sir Thomas Malory
  10. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
  11. Mort (plus others) – Terry Pratchett
  12. The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
  13. Way Station – Clifford D. Simak
  14. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
  15. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
19th-Jun-2009 06:45 pm(no subject)
creeper
Read and weep Raped, tortured, and murdered for being trans.
1st-Jun-2009 02:13 pm - Meme (via [info]ethyl_deadgirl)
alice_consall
You Are Lightning
Beautiful yet dangerous
People will stop and watch you when you appear
Even though you're capable of random violence

You are best known for: your power

Your dominant state: performing
30th-May-2009 12:32 pm - grump
alice_consall
Fired up a bit of software I installed a while back to evaluate and got a registration nag screen:



The dialogue box title makes me want to explain to the programme author carefully with a cluebat that it could cause offence.
28th-Apr-2009 09:57 pm - Bluebells
alice_consall

Bluebells
Originally uploaded by alicephilippa
This image doesn't explain my absences from most of my normal online haunts. It does however give an idea of some of what I've recently been doing, and that is getting out and about armed with camera and taking photographs.

I've now got quite a backlog to go through, so there will soon be a big upload happening.

What else? Oh, I'm finally hauling myself out of depression. The walking and photography has become tied in in the last couple of weeks with geocaching.

alice{A}
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