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100K Journal, day 1
Inertia is more exhausting than actively moving forward. This is clearly true phsychologically, but as far as climbing hills on inline skates is concerned, I experience it at a very real physical level; if I decide I'm tired and need to slump down and take it slow up the hill, that takes way more energy than actively skating up the hill either by ( Read more... ) -
NYC 100K training journal: 0
Did a single 9.6K lap today, 25'30. Slower than last night's 24'54, and much slower than my P.R. of 23'32, set on 6/16/08, when I was training more consistently ( Read more... ) -
my 1 cent about john edwards
I just don't care ( Read more... ) -
inside-outside dichotomy
I saw a man wearing a dress the other day, coming out of the Alvin Ailey II show. Thought to myself a) that it was unusual, b) that he didn't look particularly attractive, and c) that it was pretty cool nonetheless ( Read more... ) -
the "manscara" post
Of the top 3 scroogle scraped google hits for the search "manscara", were two predictably androsexist ha-ha funny columns in UK newspapers (the worse of which was in the usually high quality Guardian), and a short article that penetrated to the heart of the matter published at the fashion site styledash.com. The styledash article, focuses not the ( Read more... ) -
feelings
I think I was way harsh on myself in my last post. My thinking is closely tracking what I'm reading in Serano's book, and my previous post was motivated by her chapter on the transexual dissonance between the sex one's brain expects one's body to be, and the actuality of one's body. (Serano theorizes a biological basis for subconscious sex, because ( Read more... ) -
Politically correct cross-dressing?
Cross dressing by a man who is not genderqueer (that is, someone who does not feel a dissonance between his subconcious sex and his physical body) has two possible political meanings ( Read more... ) -
now i'm nothing
I've noticed in myself lately a tendency to not identify with any of my interests or activities. At its best, this grants me a certain amount of freedom to try new things and continually self-define myself, but most often it just reflects fear and lack of commitment ( Read more... ) -
wrapping up a few threads
so the key to my staving off depression seems to be skating. Specifically the high-intensity work that happens when I inline speedskate, but figure-skating too. The hard excercise seems to re-regulate everything from my appetite to my moods to my sleep schedule. magic ( Read more... ) -
porn is not necessarily free of violence
One mistake (among many)in articles i've read by John Stoltenburg (founder of Men Against Pornography), is that "objectification" is an all-or-nothing act, rather than one of degree. When we look desirously at a lover, we are probably objectifying hir. Certainly when we gaze at a stripper on stage, or at a physically attractive person on the ( Read more... )