quote of the day

“Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it’s okay to be a boy; for girls it’s like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that BEING A GIRL IS DEGRADING.“

- Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden (since quoted in a slightly more high-profile context)
[via femme guy]

'deep' thought of the day

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gender' is a concept that doesn't exist in my mental world - it's a translation layer wedged between my brain and the outside world

[first posted to my twitter]

Why are there no atheists in foxholes? Is it because they're in college? - Remiel

I read the headline "Pope visits Africa" as "Elderly cross-dressing virgin lectures AIDS-stricken continent about dangers of condoms." Huh. -CcSteff

yes.

"the different between a Designer and a Developer, when it comes to design skills, is the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it." --Scott Hanselman

[via Stroke]