TESTEM Issue Three!

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TESTEM: The Ethereal Serials & The Eclectic Metrics Issue Three is now online!

In This Issue:

The Ethereal Serials: cynical deities, pretentious scenesters, mean kids, a futuristic city, an alien planet, and a leather dyke

The Eclectic Metrics: genesis, submission, wax, punk, angels, the undead, nostalgia, hope

Revolution: Can musicians incite social change?

Letters to the Editors: The Foot Clan

Bizarre chat with someone about his web application

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Someone asked me to review his third year project. I was delighted when the box for Sex had a drop down box "Male, Female, Other". I told him how nice it was not to be forced to choose one or the other.

He was incredibly un-knowledgeable about the whole subject, so I educated him a bit...

Michael Jerome | Oh gender
Michael Jerome | Yeah
Michael Jerome | I thought it was for plants
Michael Jerome | and sex was for animals
Michael Jerome | but maybe I'm wrong
Andi Sermon | Sex = what's between your legs
Andi Sermon | Gender = what's between your ears
Michael Jerome | Are you sure?
Andi Sermon | absolutely.
Andi Sermon | Mine don't match, which is why i'm gender dysphoric
Michael Jerome | In which case, your sex is male, not other - thats non-disputable.
Andi Sermon | yeh i agree. I was just so overjoyed that you'd given an option "other" I had to choose it!
Andi Sermon | But keep it there, cos there's plenty of intersex people in this world!
Michael Jerome | It will stay.
Andi Sermon | Out of interest, why did you put "other" there in the first place? Most people don't even think of it...?
Michael Jerome | I think I had just had a debate about whether a man who had had the "snip" was still male - was fresh in my mind.
Andi Sermon | bizarre! Of course he is!
Michael Jerome | So does that mean a man who had a sex change should continue to use the blokes loos?
Michael Jerome | Even though he has re-started his life as a woman?
Andi Sermon | Oh sorry I thought you were referring to circumcision. No, if a man has a sex change he becomes completely a woman.
Andi Sermon | A sex change is more than just a "snip" mate!
Michael Jerome | Yeah - wrong term there.

Frozen Concrete People

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Frozen Concrete People night fights against the glow of the streetlamps frozen concrete people stare at other worlds pizza air cuts through the smoggy exhaust of cars young teenage and twentysomething jocko ego types they see me they don't know what I am they fear my pigtails and skirt fucked up gender freaks shouldn't exist in their world "hey faggot show us your dick" I hurry along pushed by my fear I don't want to be bashed or maybe worse I don't trust jocko ego types I've learned from experience to try to avoid them I hate them like they hate me I fear them like they fear me why must I live afraid to walk alone why must I live in a world that hates me