Nick
I love having the power to control my own life and change the
world.
I was a teenage hacker when Apple just showed up on the map and it was
considered inconceivable for a girl to be a silicon queen (unless referring to
her chest). I made my way through the physics program of my school by
programming for fun and profit when everyone thought female geeks were
aliens. I went to law school with my best friend/lover/husband with none
of the faculty and few fellow students the wiser that we were attached, because
we didn't want me to be labeled "Mrs. Him" or him to be labeled "Mr. Me." I've
loved most of my life thereafter as a lawyer, a programmer, a writer, an
executive, a grass-roots organizer, and many other things that go just fine
together. That didn't stop me from pulling up roots, moving 2000 miles, and
starting over with a new dream that involves saving some wildlife before it's
too damned late.
In other words, I'm a jack of all trades, bloody good at many of them, and
too stupid and stubborn to believe that I can't take on the next crazy challenge.
I don't need to waste my time worrying about mommyhood when I can create far
more interesting things outside my uterus. I despise the women who take
"the mommy track," especially when they start whining about how nobody wants to
hire them for a good job or is willing to give them their full list of
child-centric demands. It was their choice - they bought it, they're
paying for it.
Neither do I buy into some of the current fashions of feminism. I am
not a Wombyn. I don't need to be identified by my sexual organs. Men
looking at naked female bodies does not oppress me. Men trying to pay me
less than my male counterpart for my work constitutes oppression. I reject
identity politics. We're all in it together - how about we concentrate on
what sucks in all our lives and find a solution we can all live with instead of
focusing on our hurt feelings and personal agendas?
I like to make sure a little justice gets done, and I don't put up with
whining, victimhood, cruelty, greed, or other crap that's best left at the
doorstep. My best payback for temporarily destroying the fortunes of
a community was facilitating a year's sentence in Leavenworth. My finest
hour was organizing a wholly successful campaign to block a slate of post-911
laws in my state that would have shredded civil liberties across many
communities. The memory that will always summon a tear was the first time
I ever caught a hawk on my glove.
I love my world. I love my friends. I love the new
possibilities I can create.
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