Having a keen interest in anthropology it often feels like my life is just one extended field study.

One of the advantages of having an androgynous look is I can pass for either male or female depending on how I choose to display myself. This provides me with a wonderful opportunity to see how males and females experience the same thing. Take Chatroulette for instance.

With nothing more than the clever use of lighting, camera angles, hair style and clothing I can pass for female over the webcam. I can even make it appear that I have nice round breasts, albeit small and rather perky but when asked to flash they were enough to get "zomg hot". Well I've taken this Chatroulette for a spin, a couple of times as a boy and a couple of times as a girl. The experience of the excursions was remarkably different depending on what sex I was presenting.

As a boy:

The experience largely consists of me being NEXTed before I can even type a greeting. This is the usual experience if my partner was a boy or a girl. In a split second they seem to sum up whether or not they feel I am worthy of chatting with, or often finishing masturbating to (there is a remarkable amount of masturbating males on this chat system).

How boys treat me: NEXT is most common result. But every now and then someone would either be too stoned to NEXT, be in quest for LULZ or would actually want to chat. If the chatter was in bed or shirtless then a NEXT was guaranteed as they were likely looking for cyber. If the chatter was elderly they would sometimes stop and chat. If the chatter was "weird" looking they would be very likely to stay and chat and were actually very often amusing and entertaining. As for the LULZ Patrol, they follow their own set of rules and will chat just as much as they need to get their desired level of lulz. The LULZ Patrol is the group that exhibits the most consistent behaviour across gender lines. Whether I'm presenting as a boy or a girl is irrelevant to their quest. Occasionally a shirtless or reclining male would say "Sorry, I'm not a fag" before NEXTing me.

How girls treat me: NEXT is the most common result. However every now and then a female would engage in actual conversation. They would be polite and often entertaining. They would never initiate a request to cyber or for me to expose myself.

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As a girl:

How boys treat me: Rarely would a male NEXT me when I was presenting as a female. They would almost always initiate conversation with a greeting and often a compliment. "Hey sexxy", "Wow a cute girl instead of another dick", "What brings you here, baby". Most males would start conversation very politely. Some however would simply say "TITS or GTFO". If I was issued a request for tits I would pull down my tank top in such a way that my pectorals would appear to be a round and perky A cup. This universally provoked a response along the lines of "ZOMG HOT!" and the male would then attempt to escalate the game of show and tell or engage in cyber. This provided me with an opportunity to engage in my own quest for lulz. Generally with very little effort I could get the male to begin masturbating and often expose himself. Being infinitely familiar with the workings of the male sex organ I would be able to tease the male and identify the point at which they were going to ejaculate when I would drop the lulz bomb on them. "Oh BTW, I'm a boy". Playing my trap card would usually result in the male hurriedly covering himself up and exclaiming some rather harsh and profanity laden criticisms of my sexuality, threats of kicking my ass and then a NEXT. Sometimes it would result in the guy instantly blowing his load and exclaiming "ZOMG HOT! Show me your tits again!" or instantly ejaculating and exclaiming "Oh noes! I just fapped to a trap!" or on very rare occasions, crying.

However polite boys would carry out a conversation with me, try to be entertaining and would not make sexual advances. I would chat with them for awhile and then move on without playing my trap card.

How girls would treat me: Most girls would immediately NEXT me if I was presenting as a female. Every once in awhile one would chat to me. Of the girls that would actually stop to chat with me as a female the vast majority were outright hostile to me. They would call me names like slut, skank, whore, bitch and say I was ugly, dirty, nasty, filthy, stupid, worthless, etc. Despite all efforts to engage them in polite conversation they would simply heap insults of a derogatory and sexual nature upon me without cause or provocation and their faces would show obvious contempt towards me as a person. They were vicious, vile, and unrelenting in their attacks upon me and would eventually NEXT me only when they grew tired of dumping their venom on me. No doubt emboldened by the anonymity of the internet they felt liberated enough to vent their rage upon me. The experience could not help but give me cause to reflect upon how fortunate I am to have been born a boy. Apart from the odd shouts of "faggot" and the occasional bout of fisticuffs boys tend to not be downright mean to one another, and acts of aggression were usually goal oriented. Females it would seem take actual delight in being cruel and malicious to one of their own. If what I experienced as a girl online is in any way an accurate recreation of what all females experience with their own kind it is truly a wonder and testament to their mental fortitude that so many of them are able to reach adult hood without becoming a quivering bundle of neurosis. Girls it would seem, are mean. Out of all the girls I carried out chats with only two were actually polite, entertaining, and talkative.

The LULZ patrol would treat me pretty much the same as they did when I presented as a boy except they would also add a request for tits.

How bots would treat me: VISIT HTTP://MYVERSIONOFCHATROULETTEISBETTER.COM IT HAS 100% SEXY FEMALES AND NO MASTURBATING DUDES.

"Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, “This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!”

This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it’s still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything’s going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for."

 THE OSCARS PARTIES 2010
 PART 1 - THE BEST DRESSED !!



So, as you all know, the Academy Awards don't end with just the actual ceremony, and many, many stars don't get to go to that anyway, and so there are loads of parties which go on all over Hollywood, but the two main parties are the one hosted by Vanity Fair magazine, and the other one is that thrown by Elton John to raise money for his AIDS Foundation charity - and everyone who is anyone makes sure that they have a ticket to one or the other, and sometimes both !!

Here, I shall look at all the Best Dressed stars who went to these two parties, some of whom went to the ceremony and then got changed into something more casual perhaps...and some of whom turned up at both during the course of the evening...

( Come and see the party-goers... )

So howzabout that new DLC character for ME2? Did we need ANOTHER Infiltrator? However I suppose it's really all about how they do her story, so obviously that remains to be seen.

THE 82ND ACADEMY AWARDS 2010 
PART 2 - THE WORST DRESSED LIST !!



The Best Dressed List had a very hard time confining itself to just twenty-four beautiful dresses -and what gorgeous dresses they were !!
The standard was exceptionally high this year, as I said before, and so when it came to the Worst Dressed List, I had to really take the ones I liked the least instead of having a truly awful selection of definite no-nos to choose from, which is usually the case...

Is this because stars are getting very much more style savvy when it comes to red carpet photo-opportunities ?
I think it is...with the rise and rise of Fashionista blogs like this one, and the prospect of being torn apart verbally on the Internet should you get it wrong, who wouldn't make damn sure they look absolutely perfect before they leave the luxury hotel...and if that involves the services of a stylist's advice,then so be it !!
Let's face it, they all have the entire day, a startling array of millionaire's jewellery to borrow, and a whole phalanx of hairdressers and make-up artists on hand to make sure they don't look anything less than stunning - and often a star will start six weeks before that with a whole regime of extra exercises at the gym, sessions at the facial salon, and a diet that makes them cry - just in order to look fabulous on that red carpet for a few minutes - it's crazy isn't it ?!!

So if anyone looks less than perfect it's usually  the fault of the original choice of dress being badly advised, and/or just simple bad taste !! 

Here they are then - my choice of those stars who got it slightly wrong...

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Dear human females:

Have I ever told you that your waists look very...supportive?

Public Service Announcement: Gay Dancing Etiquette.

Girls, if you see a gay couple dancing together and want to get in the middle and dance with them chances are that's cool with them but please be polite and dance with both of them, not just the one you think is prettiest. It's kind of rude to get in the middle of a couple and then ignore one of them. Same goes for guys looking to get into the middle of a pair of lesbians dancing together.

I'm a US citizen but not a resident. A couple months ago I received a normal absentee ballot pack: letter from the states, voting instructions, ballot, ballot envelope, return envelope.

On the ballot, all voting choices were marked out by hand and stamped 'ineligible contest'. I'm really hoping there's a decent reason for wasting paper and postage to send me a ballot for a vote I can't take part in, but I doubt it.

As an added stupidity bonus, the back of the ballot was one of those 'this page intentionally left blank' pages. Which I can understand if they're printing that one phrase so no one mistakes the blank page for a printing error... but this 'blank' page was far from blank. It had the saying in English and Spanish as well as three bar codes, three several-digit numbers, and bright red initials. Aren't we past the point where a different phrase, like maybe 'this page contains no voting information' would be more appropriate?

Bioware positioning the opinion that the quarians need to find a new homeworld as the paragon choice sort of confuses me, because it's pretty obvious that the Quarians are like an amalgamation of Romas, Palestinians, and Jews and that idea is analogous to the Gaza Strip conflict and it's kinda dodgy that they would make that an issue of good and evil.

 THE 82ND ACADEMY AWARDS 2010 

PART 1 - THE BEST DRESSED LIST !!



Well - as you all know, the Oscars took place on Sunday 7th March, with the entire acting community of Hollywood dressed up in their finery, out and about on the town... 

This is my first post of three, where I will look at my choice of the top twenty-four Best Dressed women attending the Academy Awards Ceremony itself - the women who, in my opinion, looked every inch the Hollywood star...in the second post, I will look at the Worst Dressed, the people for whom the mirror was not a friend...and then, in the third post I will take a look at all the Oscars Parties !
This will go on easily until this weekend, so next week, I will be posting my choices from the marvellous Paris Fashion Week runway shows !!
Then I can take a well deserved breather, while you all discuss...

This year, the general red carpet standard was exceptionally high, with no less than 10 of my coveted Gold Stars being given out for outstanding overall Looks, and also 10 of my Red Stars for me, for successfully predicting the dresses worn, even if they were in my Worst Dressed List - and sadly, there are a few !! 

( Come and see the Best of the Best Dressed... )

You know, the more writing I do about Mass Effect 2 for this assignment, the more I realize how much I didn't like about the game. My main complaint is really how shoehorned a lot of the side quests feel. The first game had huge main missions and decently developed side quests, and the second one went for straightforward main missions, really cool variations in Loyalty missions, and dull and in some cases god-the-fuck awful (Did you do the one where you just follow the robot and feed it batteries? WHO THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA?) side quests.

http://wonderwall.msn.com/movies/lohan-suing-for-100-million-over-baby-ad-1541882.story?GT1=28135

I can't figure out which is the more ridiculous part of this story:

1) Lindsay Lohan thinks that e-trade mocked her in their "milkaholic ad."
2) She was able to find a lawyer to say that her first name is "just as recognizable as other single-word monikers used by stars such as Madonna and Cher."

So, if you like Green Day, AFI, Operation Ivy, Rancid, Crimpshrine, MTX, Jawbreaker, Dead Kennedys, really any band from California from 1977 to 1995, you should check this book out:


It's the same format as Please Kill Me, but it covers a whole lot more ground. There's a lot of stuff about Tim Yohannon, the founder of MaximumRocknRoll, about Gilman Street, and all sorts of crazy happenings. It is occasionally uneven though. For instance, Sammy from Fang has a whole chapter dedicated to nearly everyone who appears in the book reaming him for killing his girlfriend and eventually serving his time and being released from prison, but Jeff Ott from Fifteen raping a girl is never brought up at all. Dr. Frank hates every band except Green Day and Sweet Baby Jesus. Jawbreaker's chapter is only 3 pages long which was sad. Also, the guitarist from the Misfits splits a guy's head open and then Danzig calls everyone a fag.