CULTURE/SOCIETY - 37 Things You’ll Regret When You’re Old

They say youth is wasted on the young. Are you wasting yours?

1. Not traveling when you had the chance.

Traveling becomes infinitely harder the older you get, especially if you have a family and need to pay the way for three-plus people instead of just yourself.

3. Staying in a bad relationship.

No one who ever gets out of a bad relationship looks back without wishing they made the move sooner.

5. Missing the chance to see your favorite musicians.

"Nah, dude, I'll catch Nirvana next time they come through town." Facepalm.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mikespohr/37-things-youll-regret-when-youre-old

ENTERTAINMENT: Trials and tribulations of being a female DJ in Des Moines!

Calvert jumped into one of the most male-dominated scenes around last year, and you can now catch her at various downtown clubs, where she spins as DJ Rack City. It wasn’t an easy transition. The society can be insular, equipment’s expensive, and it’s not an easy art form to perfect. But Calvert was dogged.

http://www.dmcityview.com/2013/03/06/rack-em-up/

ENTERTAINMENT: 'Star Wars' Needs a New Approach to Gender—Not Just More Women

Science fiction has a history of asking big questions about masculinity and femininity. It's time for Star Wars to take a few pointers from its genre.

http://m.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/02/star-wars-needs-a-new-approach-to-gender-not-just-more-women/273268/

CULTURE/SOCIETY: Lies about transgender people (and how to spot a rubbish journalist)

Ever been kicked in the face? I have. Violence is common towards children who display gender difference. Poofter, they used to call me. AIDS victim, they’d whisper. Walk like a man, boy, or get a clip ’round the earhole. That last one came from my father. Still, as one matures, so does the nature of the bullying. Instead of gossip and ciggies behind bike-sheds, badmouthing is done by respectable journalists in national newspapers. Take the Telegraph’s Ed West, for example, who seems perfectly comfortable belittling the existence of “transphobia” (hatred towards transgender people). His quotation marks, not mine. Guess he’s never had a kick in the head. In fact, I doubt he has any subjective experience of being trans, and nor will many of his readers. That’s the trouble.

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/31/lies-about-transgender-people-and-how-to-spot-a-rubbish-journalist/

CULTURE/SOCIETY: How to be a trans ally

CULTURE/SOCIETY: Men posed as female pin-ups

http://boingboing.net/2011/10/07/men-posed-as-female-pin-ups.html