tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post112730734180576662..comments2024-02-20T15:17:48.594+11:00Comments on A.E.Brain: Tolerance and AcceptanceZoe Brainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13712045376060102538noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-1127489726384356182005-09-24T01:35:00.000+10:002005-09-24T01:35:00.000+10:00Ok I'm glad you're not hurt. Dr.D is about my age...Ok I'm glad you're not hurt. Dr.D is about my age - but I didn't go on into the Professoriat, but while I was a student the glass-ceiling wasn't that low - it was busy being exploded into a thousand pieces by militant Socialist-Feminists. The academic environment I swam through was not conservative at all - the Left was well established and was the dominant paradigm at UC Santa Cruz, where a professor became Mayor running as a Marxist-Leninist. Most of the born-and-raised locals hate the transient academics who did things like that, except that they are gradually being displaced by coastal hippie activist locals. :-)<BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Santa_CruzNotClauswitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358707844087117280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-1127441660645960512005-09-23T12:14:00.000+10:002005-09-23T12:14:00.000+10:00Dirt CrashrNo apologies neccessary, I thought your...Dirt Crashr<BR/><BR/>No apologies neccessary, I thought your comments were most interesting. I certainly didn't take offence. Quite the reverse in fact.<BR/><BR/>And anyone who can author a <A HREF="http://anthroblogogy.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">blog </A> with a subtitle :<BR/><BR/>"Partially sprawling adventures of a culturally hegomonic anti-idiotarian functional-structuralist and anti-collectivist imperialist, among the smugly dreaming self-satisfied Prius-driving lizadroid-Leftbat Californoodlian Eco-Tofuistas. And some home-improvement stuff."<BR/><BR/>Well, I'd forgive someone like that almost anything.Zoe Brainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13712045376060102538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-1127430658767896982005-09-23T09:10:00.000+10:002005-09-23T09:10:00.000+10:00I apologize if I've caused hurt or otherwise tramp...I apologize if I've caused hurt or otherwise trampled carelessly on this topic of significance. Forgive me for commenting without having taken the time to read your blog, reacting only to the two polar situations. I now recognize how personal are the two different opportunities.NotClauswitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358707844087117280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-1127419923657643512005-09-23T06:12:00.000+10:002005-09-23T06:12:00.000+10:00I don't think your picture's scary, but I personal...I don't think your picture's scary, but I personally believe she was once a he - I could be wrong. It actually happens not infrequently (at the University where I once worked anyhow) in the academic community, maybe more than "outside" in business or industry. Academe is a self-contained, socially cutting-edge, and intellectually supportive environment with codes of professional conduct which forbids negative, non-supportive, reactions to a gender-enterprising individual.<BR/>It's also not too surprising to find out that some upwardly mobile big-wig has secured a job for their spouse (in this case her girlfriend - $192,000 for a specially created billet that was unadvertised and closed to all other job applicants), as well as moving and transition expenses for each of them ($68,750 and $50,000), to live rent-free with service-provided in some university president's house.<BR/>That's quite a dream achievement for most people making their way in life, through one system or another.<BR/>Maybe as as an anthro major I should say that she has moved towards the culture that responded best to her, and which has enabled her to produce highly successful outcomes in terms of the positive feedback loop. <BR/>In business they talk about burn rate, cash-flow, and profit and loss statements with singular effort made to stay on the positive side of that flow-relationship. In Buddhism the main focus is on the flow-event itself, and riding dirtbikes offroad for me is a flow-practice - a reward event for weeks and months of "regular" life and work.<BR/>I wish you well in every endeavor.NotClauswitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358707844087117280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-1127354157269206022005-09-22T11:55:00.000+10:002005-09-22T11:55:00.000+10:00DirtCrasherIt's because of women like her that wom...DirtCrasher<BR/><BR/>It's because of women like her that women like me get to blend in, even before Facial Feminisation Surgery.<BR/><BR/>Frankly, I think she could do with some FFS herself. But if she's comfortable as she is, then good for her. Her life when a young girl must have been Hellish - worse even than mine - but she excelled anyway.<BR/><BR/>And I'm very impressed with her <A HREF="http://chancellor.ucsc.edu/biography.asp" REL="nofollow">record of achievement</A>. She's not just good, she's outstanding, and axhieved a lot at a time when the glass ceiling was far lower than it is today.<BR/><BR/>Please look beyond external appearances. Look at what the person is, what they've done, not how much their faces may have been affected by a weird hormone mix. OK, since I'm getting FFS, I'm being hypocritical. I've looked so awful for so long that I want to look good for once, not just "passable", it's pure feminine vanity, I admit it.<BR/><BR/>As for Dr D? The hormone mix that gave her face many masculine markers probably wired her brain for an increase in IQ and creativity, it tends to do stuff like that. 46xx genes plus extra testosterone, or 46xy genes with extra oestrogen, either way works.<BR/><BR/>The experiences of living as a girl with a "wonderful personality" and coming through it whole and sane has probably given her an inner strength and tolerance that makes her an asset to the species.<BR/><BR/>OK, the picture is still scary. So's mine. For now.<BR/><BR/>I'd be proud to know her, anyway.Zoe Brainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13712045376060102538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-1127327618452846052005-09-22T04:33:00.000+10:002005-09-22T04:33:00.000+10:00It's gone beyond soft-brain science into the Star-...It's gone beyond soft-brain science into the Star-Trek realms of total weirdness at my former University, wittness the new chancellor: <A HREF="http://review.ucsc.edu/spring05/images/cover-lg.jpg" REL="nofollow">scary picture</A>. <BR/>(I think somebody misspelled <I>Dennis</I>.)NotClauswitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358707844087117280noreply@blogger.com