{"id":33560,"date":"2014-02-19T20:21:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T20:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingsmeadow.com\/grantianflorilegium\/stranger-than-fiction-way-way-stranger\/"},"modified":"2015-09-03T05:18:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T05:18:31","slug":"stranger-than-fiction-way-way-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/stranger-than-fiction-way-way-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger than Fiction. Way, Way Stranger."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/FBGay.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/FBGay.png\" height=\"278\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span>According to Facebook, that iridescent, omnipresent gay rainbow none of us seem to be able to escape these days (even on sports radio, the NFL Network, or NBC&#8217;s Winter Olympics coverage) now boasts more than fifty shades of ummm, different. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>The social-networking behemoth\u2019s 1.2 billion users can now customize their profile \u201cgender\u201d to something more granular than the two previous\u2014and hopelessly old-fashioned and oppressive\u2014options of \u201cMale\u201d and \u201cFemale. No really. &nbsp;I&#8217;m not making this up. &nbsp;It really is Facebook&#8217;s new policy. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2014\/02\/15\/awesome-facebook-now-offering-50-choices-for-gender-in-profiles\/\">Check out this link to get the whole scoop<\/a>. Who\u2019d have thought that old standby option at other websites\u2014\u201cPrefer Not To Say\u201d\u2014would one day sound refreshingly discreet rather than bratty and petulant?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>So, as of this week,&nbsp;Facebook users&nbsp;can choose from dozens of bizarre, comical, and even redundant pet names for their own private &#8220;I-dunno,&#8221; from the quaint\u2014\u201cAndrogynous,\u201d \u201cIntersex,\u201d \u201cTranssexual\u201d\u2014to the cutting edge: \u201cPangender,\u201d \u201cGenderQueer,\u201d \u201cCisFemale.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Today\u2019s twisted narcissist who has everything (in a manner of speaking\u2014or should that be a \u201ccismale-er\u201d of speaking?) can even pick a word that contains an asterisk, such as \u201cTrans*Man.\u201d Apparently, what looks like an annoying, attention-getting flourish designed to set us \u201cbreeders\u2019\u201d teeth on edge\u2014the punctuation-mark equivalent of an aggressive lip piercing or an angry neck tattoo\u2014is in fact a deadly serious and very important life-signifier.<\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><span>Seriously.&nbsp; Fact is stranger than fiction these days.&nbsp; Way, way stranger. And, scarier.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Facebook, that iridescent, omnipresent gay rainbow none of us seem to be able to escape these days (even on sports radio, the NFL Network, or NBC&#8217;s Winter Olympics coverage) now boasts more than fifty shades of ummm, different. The social-networking behemoth\u2019s 1.2 billion users can now customize their profile \u201cgender\u201d to something more granular than the two previous\u2014and &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/stranger-than-fiction-way-way-stranger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,760,773],"tags":[679,911,912],"class_list":["post-33560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grantianflorilegium","category-current-events","category-cultural-climate","tag-trans-man","tag-homosexuality","tag-transgender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34494,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33560\/revisions\/34494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}