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Signaling. Or, the linguistic twist.

Posted in social norms, support, tagged , , , on October 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I have an Obama pin on my bag. I love it when folks say to me, “Nice pin.” Because yes, it’s “nice,” but there’s nothing special about it. Really, in complimenting my pin, they are signaling to me that they support Obama too. That we’re on the same side. That we have this pretty big [...]

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Reasons like this….

Posted in social norms, ugh!, tagged , , on October 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Are why I sometimes just want to hide away in a bubble. To protect Q, our family, everyone.
http://www.365gay.com/news/school-bus-driver-charged-in-homophobic-attack-on-student/
Poor boy. Poor, poor boy.
Thanks to this lovely blog for the link.
In sadness…..

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So….

Posted in internal conflict, resistance, social norms, tagged , , on October 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I’ve been away from this blog for a bit. While I’ve cooked up a few different posts in my head, for some reason they haven’t come out of my fingers and onto the page. I do promise that they will.
In part, though, I think that I’ve stayed away because I’ve noticed some things that seem [...]

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