This post was authored by Melanthios, a friend and past contributor of FrillyShirt. I am transgendered. I also love my body, and I love everyone else’s body, and I think that part of challenging the gender binary and part of eradicating sexism and genderism is to love your body, and to not assume that teats, [...]
Lettres
Wherein the Author reflects upon certain topical & personal issues of the Day.
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Gender, and Some Thoughts upon It – A Guest Post by Melanthios
Posted upon the 6th of September, 2011
So You’ve Gone Back In Time
Posted upon the 31st of August, 2011
This piece originally appeared on Po’Boy. There comes a time in your life when – much as you’d love to avoid it – you just have to admit to yourself “Yep, I’ve gone back in time.” Now, ideally, all our time travelling would be prefaced with cybernetic learning implants, extensive briefings, and all the preparation [...]
Bad Jobs
Posted upon the 25th of August, 2011
This piece originally appeared on Po’Boy. Scientifically speaking (or so I’m told,) mutual kvetching about our jobs is what brings us together as capitalist peons. Loathing your workplace and everything associated with it is practically mandatory, however cushy it might rationally be. That said, there are some bona fide lousy jobs out there in the [...]
Bucking & Cump, Picture Publishers
Posted upon the 30th of July, 2011
It has long been academic consensus that sex was invented in 1972 by Mrs Deirdre Sex, a fitter-and-joiner’s wife from Clapton-on-Sea, Rutland. The recent discovery of an extant product catalogue dated to 1924, detailing publications depicting certain acts previously thought unknown in the inter-war period, has challenged this belief and created a rift in contemporary [...]
The Acts We Commit In The Interests Of Science
Posted upon the 9th of June, 2011
I recently read with some interest of the longrunning push among the scientific community to achieve the abstraction of the kilogram. The official kilogram – the kilogram of record, the kilogram by which other kilograms are weighed and judged – is the International Prototype, of the Bureau of Weights and Measures, la commune de Sèvres, [...]
Who Is On First
Posted upon the 21st of April, 2011
Twotifort: I say I say now, Onestable, it was sure bally-bolly-jolly nice of you to purchase for me this American baseball team. Onestable: Absodandy my pleasure, Twotifort, old egg! Have you acquainted yourself with the players yet? Two: I haven’t had the opportunity, worst luck! Might you be kind enough to run me through the [...]
Hubris’ Seasonal Japes
Posted upon the 1st of April, 2011
Reginald, Lord Hubris, is not immune to the appeal of touch-and-go jocularity, though he does prefer to perpetrate his gags on any day but this, so as not to give his victim any advance warning. As a graduate of the English public school system, one might suspect him of favouring simple shocks, of the adder-in-the-bedclothes, [...]
The Hubris House for Young Troublemakers
Posted upon the 27th of February, 2011
Reginald, Lord Hubris, was the 13th and final Baron of Hubris Hall – he cemented the fall of that noble peerage, through his wanton greed for money and power, and through his cruel and barbarous temper. He now heads, among a number of disreputable business interests, the Hubris House for Young Troublemakers, a preparatory school [...]