I wrote a response to a journal entry by a fellow blogger. It addresses her "coming out" as a fat person. I have copied my response below:

On a semi-related note, one thing that complicates attempts to "come out" is the possibility (which may even be normative) that you can tell someone about the issue and they can still not get it. Prejudice means preconception, and even the people who "know exactly what you mean" often do not have a clue what you mean when you are proposing a new paradigm. "Oh, I know it hurts, dear." It does hurt, but the point is not just that. The point is that it hurts AND that the dominant paradigm is bullshit. A lot of compassionate but misinformed people think that the best response they can give is to "help you adjust" despite your "shortcoming." The best response is for them, and you, to realize that you have no "shortcoming" in any a priori sense and to understand the supporting arguments for the position that you have no shortcoming in any a priori sense.

The Dead Things won the Cup 4-1. My rec league team is now 1-2. We are taking a week off to let them drain the arena, after which we will play six more "regular season" games followed by The Playoffs.

BTW, I thought I'd throw in some philosophy in accordance with the Blog description. I did a review of Baudrillard's Simulations for "First Person, Plural" (actually part of a "tandem" review, with P. doing a book by Ritzer). I will probably be doing a review of one of Derrida's works for one of the shows we are planning for July. So much for philosophy.

We played our first rec league game last night and lost 8-0. Still, the tenor of the game was friendly enough: I had half expected the other players to be bitter old failed jocks, and they weren't, at least not in spirit. Moreover, the rec centre had indicated that if the teams were unbalanced, they would share the wealth by making a few "trades" and evening things up, so our suffering will not be as protracted as certain teams I could name.

In unrelated news, Detroit tied up the Cup finals versus Carolina last night at one game each. I am frankly surprised that the Hurricanes won either of the first two games against the Red Army. Their roster strikes me as devoid of any stars, unless Ron Francis having been one five to ten years ago counts. I mentioned my bafflement to one of the other players on my rec league team, and he said that Carolina plays the dreaded Neutral Zone Trap to perfection. Maybe my team should try that.

Episode 1 of "First Person, Plural," our show on CFUV-FM, went off without a hitch last Thursday, May 9. Today we air Episode 2. We are also uploading additional "Coffee Shop" episodes (especially since we may not have the option later if Live365 gets nuked off the air by the U.S. federal government).

The weather is geting nicer here, slowly but surely. I have signed up to take part in a rec hockey league for players over the age of 35. The league is being conducted by the Oak Bay recreation department and begins in June. See you on the ice!

Lots of activity today. We aired a special hour-long episode of "Coffee Shop" all day long on our Live365 Internet radio station. We also heard the PSA re: CARP we had submitted on L365's special "Stinky Fish" protest/light pop station. We recorded a promo for our new show premiering on May 9 on CFUV-FM in Victoria, "First Person, Plural." Later in the day, Pattie cohosted the weekly "Women On Air" show, devoting the episode to CARP and related issues, including the CPCC. I recorded the broadcast from our home, and after I picked her up at the station, we listened to it together while sitting in the van alongside Dallas Road, looking across the water to Port Angeles and the mountains of the Olympic Peninsula.