Tumblr is an education

...in more ways than one.

Most of the people I follow are very young or Millenials with the occasional Gen-Xer and even rarer fellow Baby Boomer. It seems that the younger and more creative the individual, the less likely they are to fit any of the gender or sexual orientation definitions available when I was a wee lass.

When I was a kid (whacks geezer cane on the porch) you had your boys, your girls, your normal people who dug the opposite sex, those highly suspect boys who dug boys and Renee Richards.

We were gobsmacked by Renee Richards and (at the time) waffled between judging him/her/it a horrible attention whore and/or her a brave pioneer.

Me? I was (and am, see girly stuff tag) a not very girly girl with minimal interest in boys because boys were stupid and no interest in girls because ...no interest in girls. For years, I didn't even realize that could be a thing. By the time I did, I was already finding about a dozen more interesting things to do than pursue sex with other people at any given time.

Now, I'm sniffing around a brand new sexuality (asexual or gray sexual?) and trying to figure out the difference between genderqueer and genderfluid (no link because Wikipedia feeds directly back to genderqueer on that one and all the other sites are BLOCKED ZOMG SEX from my work LAN) and whether either of them applies to me because I revolt utterly against the picture of womanhood imprinted on me as a kid, am not sure the current picture really fits either and would rather be dragged backward over carpet tacks and dipped in rubbing alcohol than be a man.

Thanks, tumblr. I was just twiddling my thumbs, wondering what to think about in middle age before you came along.

NO, REALLY I WASN'T KTHNXBAI. 

grrr

Boss sez to bring new and different ideas to next Tuesday's staff meeting for reducing ticket volume to our work group.

Fact: We get the statistical equivalent of 100% of our tickets from the customer facing organization.
Fact: Our boss came to us from the customer facing organization and won't hear a word against them for reasons that vary by mood from "you just hate and abuse them all unreasonably with your petty foolish demands, shut up;" and "okay, you might occasionally be right but customer care can't do anything about it because _____, so we'll have to clean our own house first."

So, if we want to reduce volume we don't generate, it will have to be from our side of the fence.

(brain splodey)