[political] I am signed up for canvassing for Yes on 3 tomorrow from 10-2. Today I have sent some "please vote" texts through an app to friends and acquaintances I think might not vote (including a current freelance contact and an old coworker) and a long email to a mailing list, and made a few more GOTV calls for Yes on 4 in Florida.
Depending on how drained I am after canvassing tomorrow, I hope to sign up for a shift on Tuesday as well. I'm willing to collapse Tuesday evening and am planning to do nothing Wednesday, but if I collapse Monday evening I will listen to my body. (I voted last week specifically so I could volunteer Tuesday.) I'm holding off on the sign-up to save the annoyance of having to explain why I'm not making it, and to save the volunteer who would be calling the trouble.
Meanwhile, a mostly friendly discussion on an editorial list of when singular they is accepted/acceptable led to me mentioning the word "nibling" for niece or nephew, and including nonbinary relatives for whom neither gendered term is appropriate. And that got me some friendly messages, and one obnoxious one about "PC." *sigh* But my on-list answer to the obnoxious message (in which I dug out from ages ago the idea that, based on what it's applied to, PC stands for "plain courtesy") got a "thanks for saying that, I was too angry to phrase it well."
Too much of the work that is in front of me to do is work that shouldn't be necessary, but we live in an imperfect world. So, tomorrow I will fight for freedom and justice, and![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cattitude will feed me a nice dinner afterward.
(I am wondering if I should make the rainbow-background clenched fist my default userpic.)
Depending on how drained I am after canvassing tomorrow, I hope to sign up for a shift on Tuesday as well. I'm willing to collapse Tuesday evening and am planning to do nothing Wednesday, but if I collapse Monday evening I will listen to my body. (I voted last week specifically so I could volunteer Tuesday.) I'm holding off on the sign-up to save the annoyance of having to explain why I'm not making it, and to save the volunteer who would be calling the trouble.
Meanwhile, a mostly friendly discussion on an editorial list of when singular they is accepted/acceptable led to me mentioning the word "nibling" for niece or nephew, and including nonbinary relatives for whom neither gendered term is appropriate. And that got me some friendly messages, and one obnoxious one about "PC." *sigh* But my on-list answer to the obnoxious message (in which I dug out from ages ago the idea that, based on what it's applied to, PC stands for "plain courtesy") got a "thanks for saying that, I was too angry to phrase it well."
Too much of the work that is in front of me to do is work that shouldn't be necessary, but we live in an imperfect world. So, tomorrow I will fight for freedom and justice, and
cattitude will feed me a nice dinner afterward.(I am wondering if I should make the rainbow-background clenched fist my default userpic.)
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I hadn't heard that before, and it's fabulous. ^_^
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I just replied to that thread before seeing your post, sharing pronoun.is which is a good site for anyone needing to look up neopronouns, and a great way or normalising their use.
And the 'plain courtesy' line is one I need to remember.
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