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I saw that article last night, and was reduced to tears by it.
Kids with the middle name Danger! I know a little girl who is Maxine Danger [lastname]. The best part is that her mom's last name is Danger.
Favorite Christmas smell? Baking gingerbread.
...what if it's purple and sparkly?
Most probably not a penis. A Real Penis (tm) only comes in fleshtone.
Favorite Christmas smell? Baking gingerbread.
We'll be making a giant Gingerbread man cookie this weekend. The TJ's one that comes as a kit.
Tonight however, we hie off into the dark to attend JZ's office party.
...what if it's purple and sparkly?
Most probably not a penis. A Real Penis (tm) only comes in fleshtone.
Dang!
Oh, crap! Well, oh, good, really... David and JZ's hieing reminded me that I think I have a concert to go to tonight... and I have no idea what time. I should look into that. At least I know where. Wow. Brain holey.
I'm a fan of the mulled cider smell. Can't think of one I don't like that I particularly associate with Christmas at the moment, but I'll think about it.
Some people tried to explain to me that there were as many female genre and/or nerds as male. And then they treated me like I was mansplaining. It was really surreal. Just because LJ is full of female slash fans...no, it's still a man's world, in terms of numbers and volume of yelling.
Hmm. I do think it depends on how wide you throw your net, though. If the definition of "genre" includes urban fantasy & anime/manga and Twilight, not to mention various fantastic tv properties, I suspect there's a rough equivalence.
Somewhere I bookmarked a study on SF/fantasy fans, which indicated that the readers in the two categories, put together, was about equal, gender-wise.
The designer behind the Big Book of Knitted Monsters is named Rebecca Danger.
If the definition of "genre" includes urban fantasy & anime/manga and Twilight, not to mention various fantastic tv properties, I suspect there's a rough equivalence.
But tech is in there too, and I don't think there's any way that urban fantasy and Twilight can make up for those numbers.