Linuxchix

From the Linuxchix website:


LinuxChix is a community for women who like Linux and Free Software, and for women and men who want to support women in computing. The membership ranges from novices to experienced users, and includes professional and amateur programmers, system administrators and technical writers.

In other words, it's a safe haven from the casual misogyny one can sometimes find in the Linux community. The IRC channel is much more active than the e-mail lists it seems.

Now I may not be a woman...yet, but I do sometimes hang in the Linuxchix IRC channel, but not the grrls only one, since I don't think I belong there right now since I'm not living as a woman yet.

I run Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 myself, on my PS3.

Heathers and Mean Girls

Betty Finn was a true friend and I sold her out for a bunch of Swatch dogs and Diet Coke heads. Veronica Sawyer in Heathers

Me? I wanted to be kind of like a Heather. Pretty, popular, on the student council. An bookishly preppily femme Queen of the School. Yeah I was stupid, but don't worry, I got better. Not that would have let me in anyway, being a nerdy guy for all that they knew.

Veronica is the real hero, sort of, of the film. And yes, Veronica Sawyer did inspire my name.

There were "Heathers" at my school too, but unlike the Heathers or the Plastics in the Mean Girls film, they didn't wear skirts. What is with that, anyway. It seems in films the Meanie girls are always skirt wearing femmes. They weren't at my school. Well poo on that, I'm a femme, and I'm not Mean...usually.

And yes, the Meanie girls need to be taken down a notch....but that usually happens a few years after graduation. You may be "top girl" at Farmville High, but at Big State Uni, you're nobody. So wacking them with drain cleaner is not necessary.

As for why Mean Girls exist and what we should do about them...others smarter than me have written books about it. You're better off reading them. But most Meanies build up their power base over years so all you have to do is shut them down while they're young. Make sure the Proto-Mean Girl doesn't get to monopolize leadership positions, have an open policy towards sports/cheerleading (ie let everyone who tries out in), and clamp down on the subtle bullying the Meanies do. You also have to make certain the teachers themselves don't show favoritism to the future meanies, coz sometimes they do.

Heathers and Mean Girls are fun films to watch, and well worth owning.

Is the VeronicaMoonlit a Transsexual? Yes.

Yes, I am. And I'm finally doing something about that, which would make certain internet friends I have lost contact with, very happy.

So, I'm in the counseling stages to get the hormone letter, and pricing hair removal.

Is the VeronicaMoonlit a feminist? Yes.

Yes, yes I am. I've identified as such for years. Lets see, I think it was before Anita Hill, somewhere between 1988 and 1990. I began identifying more strongly with feminism with the rise of Third Wave feminism. In fact, it was a series of articles and interviews in Glamour magazine about and by Naomi Wolf and Susan Faludi that did so.

I would describe myself as a pro-porn, pro-choice Third Wave feminist. Though the anti-abortion folks would have less to complain about if people were encouraged to use birth control...but some anti-abortion folks are against that too.

I'm a practical feminist, I don't go for that deconstruction and theorizing, it hurts my head. I like to keep it simple.

Funny thing is, I sometimes agree to a certain extent with the radfems and separatist feminists on the "Men are teh suckage in general" issue, but they think MTF transfolk are teh devil. Also, men suck because our society doesn't in general teach men how to NOT suck, and separating yourself from men means you aren't part of the solution.

So yes, I am a feminist.