Finally, some good news.

[meowse]

30% effective AIDS vaccine.

So wonderful. Far to go, but...so wonderful.

Also, after all of the FooFails on LJ lately (including on my LJ), this authentically made me smile.

Separate topic: as an ex-Fundamentalist Christian, I'm seriously considering doing this, precisely because it still makes measurable parts of my brain quiver in atavistic

Comments

[seiryuuchan]

I don't get the comic*, but I like the rest of the links. Thank you for sharing :)

*(Could someone please explain it to me? Thanks.)

[meowse]

Basically, it's mocking the idea that one can "not see gender, just see people". Because we are, all of us, hard-wired to react in unconscious ways to different genders. Visual cues, pheromone cues, social conditioning, etc.

It's a laudable ideal, in some people's minds, to be "gender-blind"...to not see gender, but just people. But it's also a largely unattainable goal, so people who claim to have attained it are much more likely to be indulging in insufficient introspection than they are to have actually mastered gender-blind perception.

So the comic is pointing out that while this may be a laudable goal, actually claiming it to be true for yourself probably doesn't give other people either the message that you're gender-blind, or a warm and fuzzy feeling about how you're really seeing them, not their gender.