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"[...]

"The definition of feminism does not ask for two forms of photo ID. It does not care what you look like. It does not care what color skin you have, or whether that skin is clear, or how much you weigh, or what you do with your hair. You can bite your nails, or you can get them done once a week. You can spend two hours on your makeup, or five minutes, or the time it takes to find a Chapstick without any lint sticking to it. You can rock a cord mini, or khakis, or a sari, and you can layer all three. The definition of feminism does not include a mandatory leg-hair check; wax on, wax off, whatever you want. If you believe in, support, look fondly on, hope for, and/or work towards equality of the sexes, you are a feminist.

"Yes, you are.

[...]

"It has nothing to do with your sexual preference or your sense of humor or your fashion sense or your charitable donations, or what pronouns you use in official correspondence, or whether you think Andrea Dworkin is full of crap, or how often you read Bust or Ms. -- or, actually, whether you've got a vagina. In the end, it's not about that. It is about political, economic, and social equality of the sexes, and it is about claiming that definition on its own terms, instead of qualifying it because you don't want anyone to think that you don't shave your pits. It is about saying that you are a feminist and just letting the statement sit there, instead of feeling a compulsion to modify it immediately with 'but not, you know, that kind of feminist' because you don't want to come off all Angry Girl. [...]"

-- Sarah D. Bunting, "Yes, You Are" [go read the whole thing; it's worth it -- DGA], Tomato Nation, 2003-09-30

"[...]

"The definition of feminism does not ask for two forms of photo ID. It does not care what you look like. It does not care what color skin you have, or whether that skin is clear, or how much you weigh, or what you do with your hair. You can bite your nails, or you can get them done once a week. You can spend two hours on your makeup, or five minutes, or the time it takes to find a Chapstick without any lint sticking to it. You can rock a cord mini, or khakis, or a sari, and you can layer all three. The definition of feminism does not include a mandatory leg-hair check; wax on, wax off, whatever you want. If you believe in, support, look fondly on, hope for, and/or work towards equality of the sexes, you are a feminist.

"Yes, you are.

[...]

"It has nothing to do with your sexual preference or your sense of humor or your fashion sense or your charitable donations, or what pronouns you use in official correspondence, or whether you think Andrea Dworkin is full of crap, or how often you read Bust or Ms. -- or, actually, whether you've got a vagina. In the end, it's not about that. It is about political, economic, and social equality of the sexes, and it is about claiming that definition on its own terms, instead of qualifying it because you don't want anyone to think that you don't shave your pits. It is about saying that you are a feminist and just letting the statement sit there, instead of feeling a compulsion to modify it immediately with 'but not, you know, that kind of feminist' because you don't want to come off all Angry Girl. [...]"

-- Sarah D. Bunting, "Yes, You Are" [go read the whole thing; it's worth it -- DGA], Tomato Nation, 2003-09-30

+ I can play whole-step bends on the bass guitar at the third fret and hit the pitches I was aiming for (including the pre-bends), but ...

- Yow, is that rough on the fingertips when I haven't done it in a while! (Time to get the digits in shape.) Still ...

+ It sounds wicked cool in the tune I was doing it in, even though ...

- It was recently pointed out to me that a tendency to play legato on bass may be the reason my bass parts don't sound loud enough despite how loudly I play them -- not enough definition -- so in performance adding a bunch of bends might not produce a clear enough line. Therefore:

+ I'll just write out what I was doing in detail and see whether the guitarist on that tune likes it.:-)

As a side effect, I know a smidgen more Postscript than I did the day before yesterday, since my notation software doesn't support guitar bends but does allow user-defined custom Postscript decorations.

syntonic_comma and anniemal should be arriving any minute to drive up to Baitcon, so the promised footnote to yesterda's electronica post will probably have to wait until I return.

+ I can play whole-step bends on the bass guitar at the third fret and hit the pitches I was aiming for (including the pre-bends), but ...

- Yow, is that rough on the fingertips when I haven't done it in a while! (Time to get the digits in shape.) Still ...

+ It sounds wicked cool in the tune I was doing it in, even though ...

- It was recently pointed out to me that a tendency to play legato on bass may be the reason my bass parts don't sound loud enough despite how loudly I play them -- not enough definition -- so in performance adding a bunch of bends might not produce a clear enough line. Therefore:

+ I'll just write out what I was doing in detail and see whether the guitarist on that tune likes it.:-)

As a side effect, I know a smidgen more Postscript than I did the day before yesterday, since my notation software doesn't support guitar bends but does allow user-defined custom Postscript decorations.

syntonic_comma and anniemal should be arriving any minute to drive up to Baitcon, so the promised footnote to yesterda's electronica post will probably have to wait until I return.