Spark in Darkness 101! Darren and Caoimhe

*pokes* not happy (never am, am I?)

I hate conversation. I really do. You end up with pages and pages of words that just seem to go on and on and on. I've never been able to write conversation I've been happy to read.

I'll file it under "necessary step" and glare at it for a while

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I have a shiny technical thing. Um. *pokes it* Or Tweets it, I guess

As is probably clear by now, I'm something of a luddite. I love technology on my terms and shun it when it makes my life waaaay more complicated than it needs to be.

Beloved is the opposite. he has never found a shiny bell, whistle or random silly thing he doesn't want to buy and throw away when he gets bored with it and play with.

What is more annoying is that he will try and foist shiny things on me and make me use them. He does this to annoy me. And since we're currently fighting the "Peppery Stir Fry" war, this means annoyances are piling up *ignores inboxes full of browser games he KNOWS I'll get additced to*


Long story short, I'm now on Twitter.

Yay.

Now, what am I supposed to do with this?


ETA: You have how few words? I'm a lawyer, damn it! I haven't been brief in my life!

Remember my rant about gays in the media?

Waaay back here when I ranted about how homosexuals are depicted by the media?


Well here is a great vid linked to by Renee at Womanist Musings about that very subject

Is this better than invisibility? Is it better to be a collection of freak shows and stereotypes? Or, so wonderfully, to be the lifeless side kick for straight women - gods forbid the gay guy having a life that doesn’t involve her. SO much so that a HOMOSEXUAL MAN will end up in bed with her?

For young gays growing up today is it better to have no depictions at all of homosexuals or these sad tropes and stereotypes? Better yet - let’s not make it an either/or choice. Can we have sensible, sane depictions of us please (and that means all of us - including Lesbians that aren’t sex toys for straight men, Bissexuals who aren’t promiscuous sex maniacs and some mature, sensible depictions of trans people) because at the moment the fact a programme has a gay character usually makes me change the channel.

And it spills over into real life. You trawl through my archives and you’ll find me complaining about women who seem to think I’m some kind of agony uncle. AND people asking extremely personal and offensive questions (seriously, since when is it acceptable for an acquaintance to question me on my intimate sex acts?). Can we please have the media treating us as people and not caricatures or accessories.