They're Taking Over, Dammit!

I'm not really interested in keeping up to date, but I figure I've dawdled enough on this one.Given Takei's history of tongue-in-cheek video clips, I'm not sure how seriously to take this one. As a joke it's a good one. It works as a jape at the old sf trope that humanity would drop our petty international quarrels and band together if we faced an extraterrestrial threat, but given the current

They're Taking Over, Dammit!

I'm not really interested in keeping up to date, but I figure I've dawdled enough on this one.Given Takei's history of tongue-in-cheek video clips, I'm not sure how seriously to take this one. As a joke it's a good one. It works as a jape at the old sf trope that humanity would drop our petty international quarrels and band together if we faced an extraterrestrial threat, but given the current

Everybody's Unique -- Except Me

I've begun reading Stephanie Meyer's Twilight. Yes, the megabestseller; your Promiscuous Reader will read almost everything. Aside from the irony that the heroine/narrator announces at the outset she she's not "what anyone would call verbose" -- at the beginning of a 500-page book! -- it's going well enough. But something occurred to me.

One of the early warning signs of gayness, everyone agrees, is feeling different from other children from a very early age. This is even cited as evidence for homosexuality's being somehow inborn. But Bella tells us right away that she didn't fit in, that she'd never found a place where she belonged. The Twilight books are huge bestsellers. Many thousands (millions?) of young women identify with Bella and her alienation. Many thousands (millions?) of readers also identified with the alienated, isolated Harry Potter. So what's unusual about feeling different? If anything, it's a sign of being just like everybody else.

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Everybody's Unique -- Except Me

I've begun reading Stephanie Meyer's Twilight. Yes, the megabestseller; your Promiscuous Reader will read almost everything. Aside from the irony that the heroine/narrator announces at the outset she she's not "what anyone would call verbose" -- at the beginning of a 500-page book! -- it's going well enough. But something occurred to me.One of the early warning signs of gayness, everyone

Everybody's Unique -- Except Me

I've begun reading Stephanie Meyer's Twilight. Yes, the megabestseller; your Promiscuous Reader will read almost everything. Aside from the irony that the heroine/narrator announces at the outset she she's not "what anyone would call verbose" -- at the beginning of a 500-page book! -- it's going well enough. But something occurred to me.One of the early warning signs of gayness, everyone