September 2011
125 posts
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Mormon father's suicide forces new attention on... →
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Things I should Place on a Post-It Next to my...
1.) Be professional
2.) You are larger than you think
3.) Remember you are representing an organization.
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No response on why certain blogs were deleted...
Tumblr does not have a press contact. This is all I received from the organization.
Jim, Sep-27 19:34 (EDT):
Hey,
What email address and blog URL are you using on Tumblr?
An example of a blog URL is http://staff.tumblr.com. Please give us your blog URL in that format.
Jim
— Tumblr Support support@tumblr.com
This canned response has nothing to do with my concerns and the name of...
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Proposed new site aims to be Asexual all-in-one... →
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Please leave Sheldon Cooper's Asexuality Intact →
This was very out of character for Sheldon Cooper. It is possible they are setting Sheldon up to be a romantic character, but I don’t expect that from the same people who brought us Two and a Half Men.
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LGBTQ Nation adds Asexual Pride flag to its logo →
Not sure if this has only affected its Facebook page or not
Today is International Blasphemy Day →
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REM broke up, but I'm not sure where a Telegraph... →
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Demisexuality: Not Inherently Slut Shaming →
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Wal-Mart changes employee policies to protect... →
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Australia's morning show hosts giggle through... →
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For the person who asked for asexual t-shirts...
asexual-walks-of-life:
I have a shirt store on Zazzle, making neurodiverse/autism/gender non-binary shirts, but, if people want an asexual design, give me your thoughts on what it should be like and I will try to make one (or two, or three)! You can give as much details as you want or just a rough idea, either is fine ^v^
Asexual News sells a few badly designed t-shirts on Zazzle as well. AVEN...
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I'm late here but BBC 3 cancels Doctor Who... →
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This isn't a new dating site for Transgender... →
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Asexual Awareness Week $35 away from its... →
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Fort Worth student who received an in-school... →
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Asexual News's Daily Roundup -- September 27, 2011
Although there will be one more story for today, we will start the daily round up early. We’ll begin with something light hearted. It’s also only tangentially related to Asexuality.
Swankivy’s Bloopers
http://asexualnews.com/index.php/cake-recipes/601-swank-ivys-bloopers
Asexual Awareness Wee Needs Help With Podcast Volunteers
They also have details in other ways you can get...
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Sociologists beat physicists to discovery of an... →
http://www.smbc-comics.com/
Although I didn’t much care for sociology, I’m afraid there’s more truth here than I’d care to admit. (The textbook lavished way too much praise on Karl Marx for my tastes. I’m not entirely sure his ideas about class were wrong, but his imitators leave much to be desired.)
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Asexual News's Daily Roundup -- September 26, 2011
The most active writer took a day off so today’s round up is light.
Wikipedia
I’m a latecomer to this story, mostly because I didn’t realize that it was a problem. Other people will have more comments on it.
http://asexualnews.com/index.php/cake-recipes/597-foreign-language-wikipedia-articles-use-different-definitions-of-asexuality-than-american-articles
NEW WPATH...
Asexual News's Daily Roundup -- September 25, 2011
Okay, leaving the world of the arguments behind, we are going to start today with a correction. The correction deals with a Fort Worth Story where a student was punished for saying Homosexuality was a sin.
The Correction
http://asexualnews.com/index.php/news/594-correction-to-the-fort-worth-student-story
Two Controversial Blogs Disappear
I thought it was 3 initially, but Privilege Denying...
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Almost Sixteen Ace: Homophobic Ace and PDA got... →
almostsixteenace:
ace-reporter:
ace-reporter:
raumlet:
ace-reporter:
[snip snip]
It true that Homophobic Ace had multiple sock puppet accounts he used to bolster his or her argument.
[snip snip]
Has this really been confirmed? :/ I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised, but I also haven’t seen any evidence for it.
Lol, yeah, and I certainly didn’t learn anything about computers as a...
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Almost Sixteen Ace: Homophobic Ace and PDA got... →
ace-reporter:
raumlet:
ace-reporter:
[snip snip]
It true that Homophobic Ace had multiple sock puppet accounts he used to bolster his or her argument.
[snip snip]
Has this really been confirmed? :/ I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised, but I also haven’t seen any evidence for it.
Lol, yeah, and I certainly didn’t learn anything about computers as a computer science major.
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Gender Genie -- Writing Analysis Tool
This is just a bit of fun. There’s a more accurate tool that’s linked to, but even then it’s not fool proof. A lot of my own writing I’ve ran through it has come up as ‘female’ when I select the blog.
http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php
But yes, there’s research behind this.
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Homophobic Ace and PDA got deleted -- before we...
raumlet:
ace-reporter:
[snip snip]
It true that Homophobic Ace had multiple sock puppet accounts he used to bolster his or her argument.
[snip snip]
Has this really been confirmed? :/ I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised, but I also haven’t seen any evidence for it.
I only have proof that the accounts had the same IP address. This does not necessarily indicate they were the same person....
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Homophobic Ace and PDA got deleted -- before we...
First off, the blogs mentioned above were annoying. I’m not at all sorry to see them go, but this is one area where my personal feelings against them must step aside for the moment. The people who reported them to Tumblr are the ones who need to ask what their motivation was.
I understand the temptation to report people who you vehemently disagree with, but when you do, you must stop and...
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Holy frack, homophobic-ace meme has gone, and...
nethdugan:
lantean:
ace-reporter:
On the Internet? About 5 minutes.
I guess he/she ran out of things to say. Or maybe! Someone reported them for harassment and Tumblr Staff took care of them for us?
Completely unrelated, but spotted your username and did a little jig at coming across another Stargate fan on tumblr.
It seems that the PDA blog is gone, too. I haven’t checked...
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Holy frack, homophobic-ace meme has gone, and...
On the Internet? About 5 minutes.
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Asexual News's Daily Roundup -- September 24, 2011
We’ll begin with the question that is probably on the minds of every non-Asexual who reads this feed. Aces know what this question will be or at least know the form it will take.
Do Asexuals Watch Porn?
(You mean Doctor Who, Sherlock, The Big Bang Theory and Caprica aren’t porn?)
http://asexualnews.com/index.php/asexuality-101/589-do-asexuals-watch-porn
And if you’re going to...
Mail for the new servers is going very smoothly...
It’s going so smoothly that for the first time in 8 months, I got my first spam e-mail today. I know it’s spam because the same e-mail appeared in my Gmail account a few seconds earlier.
I’m not sure why this amuses me. The banker in Qatar or wherever he is from should know that no one is going to take those posts seriously any more.
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Just your average asexual~: Just FYI: →
mylifeasasassymannequin:
theraptorwhomurderedlove:
One trans* person does not speak for all trans* people. One trans* person’s experience does not define the experiences of all other trans* people. And one trans* person’s preference of what is and isn’t okay to do/say to them does not…
A note on the grammar thing: If a story does use the wrong pronouns, especially if it’s...
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Asexual News's Daily Roundup -- September 23, 2011
Before we begin today, we must thank Morethanx who did some journalism of her own and found out a UK law passed several years ago does not include protections for Asexuals.
The UK Law in Question
http://asexualnews.com/index.php/cake-recipes/588-asexuals-not-protected-by-uk-anti-discrimination-law
New York Feels Differently
A New York law, passed before Asexual News was founded went into...
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Asexual Hex Signs
First, if you don’t know what a Hex sign is, here is a brief description: It’s a Pennsylvania Dutch form of folk art, If you are going to make fun of this, I will simply say: Screw you. But I was thinking I’d like to see one of the simpler forms done in the Asexual pride colors. Yes, there is also a body of folklore that grew up around them. Some people consider them to have...
Just to clear up something
Starting a personal blog on Tumblr does not mean that I will not be continue to maintain the Ace-reporter blog. It’s just to make things easier for me. If you want to see something I did in the past, Google ‘Lair of the Sinister Porpoise.’ Some of what is written there is embarrassing, but the blog itself is much better written because I had more time to work on it then.
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Canada'a parliament reintroduces transgender bill →
This came in late.
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LGBT Pride Flags Stolen or Vandalized from UU... →
Created a New Tumblr Blog
I’m sure most of you don’t care, but the new Tumblr blog should allow me to discuss details and deal with my personal life in a way that I’ve found I cannot on this blog. I also don’t want to get bogged down into unnecessary debates on this blog if I do not have to. It’s basically just to separate the personal details from the business details.
Edit: link included
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Asexual News's Daily Roundup -- September 22, 2011
Tomorrow is Sexual Freedom Day, folks, I will be celebrating it by not having sex. How you choose to celebrate it is up to you. I am writing this early because I am beat after a long but tiring walk.
New BBT Season
The first thing, and perhaps the most important Asexual news of the day is that the Big Bang Theory starts tonight. House starts October 3rd and Bones started last week, but neither...
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Do We Really Need to Be Told We Are Wonderful?
Do the people posting this think other Asexuals need to be told that they are wonderful? I am not wonderful because I am Asexual. I’m not an arrogant jerk because I am Asexual. I don’t think anyone would describe me as wonderful. People may have other terms for me besides arrogant jerk, but I’m an arrogant jerk because I’m an arrogant jerk. If I’m wonderful,...
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Asexual News's Daily Roundup -- September 21, 2011
Today was a weird day for the author of this particular blog, but the staff at Asexual News managed to pull through even if it was late. I also noticed there was a technical glitch with the advertising. You’ll no longer get the full page ads on the site.
(A)sexual News
Foreign audiences have waited a long time to see Angela Tucker’s film chronicling the founding of AVEN, the life of...
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Should be an interesting Day
I’m up in time for my history class where I learn things that I already know. I missed the section on Yellow Journalism so I won’t get to comment that while journalists may have started one American War, they certainly did lose another American war 70 years later. (Walter Kronkite is given credit for helping America lose the war, by the way.)
That’s not why today should be...
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Asexual News's Daily Roundup -- September 20, 2011
Today was a momentous day in LGB history. The T was left off for a reason. The long-standing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy is no longer in effect. Transgender service members still cannot openly serve in the armed forces, however.
http://asexualnews.com/index.php/lgbt-issues/572-dont-ask-donttell-ends-transgender-service-members-still-barred
Asexual Awareness Week Update
The AAW 2011...
Casting questions into the deep: TW: Intentional... →
demisexuality:
save-the-princess:
Hey tumblr, you’ve got a word for every stupid gender combination and sexual orientation. Could you tell me what the word is for a platonic obsession with a malevolent AI to the point of giving up a lifetime just to test with her?
It is just so…
Aperture Science
We do what we must because we can
for the good of all of us
except the ones who are...
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Attempted Danger: So, we're not allowed by the... →
outlawroad:
sir-kit:
pmzzo:
sir-kit:
semiel:
outlawroad:
I feel there should be a word and not a phrase, but no one—not even the critics—are offering anything valid. Why “sexual” is offensive and the more specific sexual identity words aren’t offensive is still beyond me but whatever. People who have a problem want to be pleased.
So right now, all…
Wait, people are offended by the...
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This Be the Asexual News's Daily Round Up that...
Arr!
Avast ye scurvy dogs. This day be a very slow news day. It also be Talk Like a Pirate Day. The landlubbers over at Asexual News have still managed to give ye bilgrats something to feast yer eyes upon.
This Tumblr Thing Be Full of Stormy Seas
Some people be forgetting that a day devoted to improper grammar and talking like the mightiest warriors to ever sail the seven seas be a poor day to...
Ahoy, mateys! Today be International Talk like a...
And I’ll be rounding up your cakes and making any ninjas hidden amongst ye walk the plank. Ye’ve been warned.
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Ways to address issues respectfully (an offer to a...
The past few days have caused me to think. The first is that I really need to not feed the trolls. I had found myself transported back to a world I thought I had left long ago. When it comes down to it, it was a world I didn’t much care for either. I left the vicious politics of Everquest behind me long ago for a reason. When I played WoW, I made the conscious choice not to be involved in...
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Demisexuality: Ace Spectrum Winter Party! →
demisexuality:
Since people really liked ace prom/party, and people responded well to this post: http://demisexuality.tumblr.com/post/10025043269/so-i-was-thinking#notes where I suggested having a winter party/online meet up. I know it’s kind of early to be thinking of winter things but, well, here you go:
This also coincides with the first day of the Larentalia (part of the Saturnalia.) I...
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Southpaw: a life-saving label (for me) →
dreadfulsweet:
I think it’s like a rite of passage for some people on the internet to say something along the lines of “why do you need labels! you just like what you like!”
Well you know, it’s not that simple.
If nobody had taken up the label “asexual” and started trying to spread…
I’m not a fan of the whole ‘We don’t need labels’ or don’t get hung up on...
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Asexual News's Daily Roundup -- September 18, 2011
We begin today by catching up on a bit of news we missed. It is a commentary on the Crissy Polis case, which has been described by some as a “McBeating.” The headline, as much as the previous description is without thought and tasteless:
Crissy Polis’s Case:
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