Doreen Michele

I know why bastard has negative connotations. Historically, if you were born out of wedlock, life was going to be extremely tough. On Cyburbia, there was a conversation once about "Special is the new retard." They routinely rename economic recessions and the new word soon means the same as the old. I spent years baffled by why "fuck you" or "go fuck yourself" is harsh language. Why would get laid and masturbate  be expressions for jacking your shit up? And then I recently wrote this piece . Someone once said to me "I'm the fucker. You're the fuckee." because it was a heterosexual relationship and I'm a woman.   My former sister in law would be in her fifties and raised three children by an alcoholic boyfriend who never married her. The third child is probably the product of rape and it may not be the only one. She's probably still fucked. Her life has never recovered.  I'm sixty and did marry the father of my children and had...

I used to track data about demographics on Hacker News and sometimes blogged about it. I stopped because I had no audience and my relationship to people on Hacker News mattered to me, so I chose to mostly keep those observations PRIVATE.  As far as I can tell, I'm the only cis woman on the leaderboard. My understanding is one individual on the leaderboard privately identifies as nonbinary but isn't out about it on Hacker News. At least one member of the leaderboard is openly a gay male. I have reason to suspect two MAY be trans but aren't saying that publicly. At least one is Greek nationality. At least one is Polish nationality. At least one is Asian American.  One extremely pasty White WASP lived in Japan for a lot of years and married a Japanese gal. To my knowledge,  none of them LIES about any of that but they tend to not harp on their ethnicity or nationality or culture or other demographic "identity" details. Some are uncomfortably open about being Christia...