Apr. 17th, 2011

supergee: (me-kinda)
Comments I made elsewhere:

[livejournal.com profile] netmouse noted "Almost no clothes for boys have flowers on them. Nor toys, nor accessories."
There's this complete and absolute difference between the sexes that is so natural and hard-wired that we have to keep enforcing it and shaming those 5-year-old criminals who don't go along with it. Fox News's resident Evolutionary Psychologist did a show warning us against a little boy who likes to have his toenails painted pink. It might be a serious problem if that meant the kid was going to turn gay, which it doesn't, and there was something wrong with that, which there isn't.
Some people are dissatisfied with Atlas Shrugged, Part I:
Parts XI, XII, and XIII (the Speech) will make it all worthwhile.
And one I didn't send, to a Canadian friend whose father is not getting prompt enough assistance from National Health:
Unaccustomed as I am to accusing others of First World Problems…
supergee: (pigs fly)
Perhaps there is a market for media about people of color.

Thanx to Geek Feminism.

Fanny May

Apr. 17th, 2011 09:52 am
supergee: (edit)
The past or subjunctive (counterfactual) of the auxiliary verb may is might. If you say "she may have" done something and then make clear that she didn't, you force literate readers to go back and figure out what you were trying to say.

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