Doreen Michele

A heteronormative view, therefore, involves alignment of biological sex, sexuality, gender identity and gender roles. Heteronormativity has been linked to heterosexism and homophobia, and the effects of societal heteronormativity on lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals have been described as heterosexual or "straight" privilege. I increasingly use the phrase heteronormative culture . So I thought I would define what I mean for future reference. I'm not talking about the view that most people are straight. I'm talking about a lot of cultural norms rooted in the implicit assumption that nearly everyone is straight, thus being something other than a cis het person is some extremely tiny minority, so small as to be an aberration and therefore nothing society needs to incorporate any kind of cultural accommodation for. This is not and has never been true. The lack of healthy societal norms for anything other than "You must fall in love with a member of the opposite

I like living well and enjoying life. I think of myself as a hedonist but I rarely call myself that because to other people that seems to mean "shortsighted idiot who has zero concept of consequences and is incapable of learning from their mistakes." Because most people seem to think "hedonist" means "drunkard and drug addict who sleeps around casually and has zero sexual ethics " Excuse me? I like my fun without regrets. Hangovers, STDs, jail time and other ruinous consequences for shortsighted behavior are absolutely not my idea of "fun," thanks. The expression bon vivant  seems to do a better job of conveying what I mean which is that I like eating well, good conversation, nice clothes and similar pleasantries.  I like living well and bon vivant is French for "person who lives well." (Literally "good liver.") If you want to communicate effectively, it's pointless to try insist your audience is wrong about what a word

I have been going through my sites and updating labels. The reason: Multiple word labels with spaces create broken links, so you can't effectively share the list of posts under that label. I have been reducing labels to one word or running multiple words together. In one case, I simply deleted all labels from the site. A word to the wise: If at all possible, plan on one word labels for your site (as I wisely mostly did on  Street Life Solutions ).

At one time, this blog was intended to be a business card of sorts, a space to talk about writing and website admin and sell freelance work to people. It didn't really fly and it's sort of reverted to being a personal blog of sorts again, but more work related than my personal blogs used to be. As noted in my  last post  on this site, odds are good Celine Dion has heard of me and dismissed me and my  health writing  out of hand.  From Medical Internet Literacy : One of the criticisms I got today about internet literacy was someone saying that big name famous people were promoting a lot of nonsense: Just a sampling of educated people who were pushing this bullshit: Elon Musk (Stanford grad school dropout), Dr Drew (USC MD), Bret Weinstein (UMich PhD), Harvey Risch (Yale). It's been more than a month since my last post to that site. I don't know if it's worth developing further AT ALL. I am not aware of any evidence that it's doing any real good for other p

One of my blogs  is named after "the daughter I never had." She was a refugee of sorts and she threw my life under a bus to try to save her own. Genevieve was not her real name, though she told me she used it online for a time. Possibly only briefly and many years ago. I haven't heard from her in a long time. I don't know for sure what became of her, though my feeling is she's probably no longer alive. I am still alive and my life has yet to recover from those events, which is part of why I don't believe she is alive anymore. My life looks wholly unfixable and it's clear in my mind my relationship to Genevieve is a primary root cause of that fact. Genevieve was a MtF transgender youth who was horrifically abused as a child. I helped her escape her monied, connected abusers and then Genevieve burned me to try to protect herself.  I don't think that's what she really wanted.  My situation is complicated by the fact that Genevieve was good at hobnobbi

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