more Grrrrr

This is really, really annoying. I pretty much knew from the cover photo that it was going to be a sensationalistic, condescending, and binaristic article, and I wasn't disappointed. Oh, sure, there was the expected and obligatory lip service to the idea that there are more than just two choices when it comes to gender, but that was fundamentally and repeatedly undercut by the body of the article. The real message was that only surgery can make you "whole", and that if you're not happy with the gender nature gave you ("something intuitively obvious to any child" was the quote, I believe), then you can choose the other.

I hate pandering by the so-called liberal press. At least the conservative press is honest about their bias.

Grrr.....

Relational/structural issues

I had an epiphany today. I can't work for companies, or positions; I can only work for people. That doesn't sound profound, and maybe it isn't, but it feels that way to me.

My company is on the rapid road to soullessness, gleefully abandoning a nontraditional culture (and most of you understand how important that is to me) in pursuit of the almighty dollar and stock earnings. This makes me quite unhappy, but it has been mitigated by having a boss who is honest, upright, moral, and gets that you just can't treat everyone exactly the same and expect good results. In other words, he gets that people follow leaders because they're people worth following. Unfortunately, this is changing.

My immediate "superior", an idiot, has had his position redefined; he'll be taking "a more direct role" in managing the staff, and the good boss (to whom I usually went directly, cutting the idiot out of the loop) will be more removed from daily operations. The idiot is highly resistant to change, thinks everyone is the same (all motivated by money, of course, and not overly concerned with ethics), and is both confused and resistant when his interpretation of things is questioned or challenged (an obvious problem for me, as I can't seem to avoid either the former or the latter). I can't work for this guy. He's not evil, but he will keep trying to make me into what he wants/understands, and I know myself well enough to know that I will fight that every step of the way. I want to quit; I was fantasizing about giving notice, of planning on how long it would take me to find a new job that would pay me the minimum I need to get by, and of giving an honest reason for leaving. This can't continue much longer.