Sherbet Lemon

Well, lemon sorbet, really, no dairy, no eggs.

It's 33°C up here, and I don't want to think about what June will be like.




Feel free to imagine a sprig of fresh mint or the prerequisite eighth of lemon on that rather bland pic. And that I had already refurbished that table, while you're at it.

( Recipe )

It's very tasty. Since I work at home, I'm always here, anyway, otherwise I probably wouldn't have bothered, as it does take ages.

Kiwi sorbet is in the making, I'm really curious how that'll turn out.

Pureblood watch

As linked by bronnyelsp before, there is an awesome documentary on eight people who believe that they are "English through and through". They agree to have their DNA checked, find that a percentage of their DNA hails from somewhere else, hilarity ensues.

( Playlist embedded here )

I'd love to take that test and learn about my genetic history. I suspect that it's mostly Eastern European.

It is so ridiculous that these island dwellers are all so convinced that they are "100% English", and I love how their test subjects all deal with the information that they are not, in fact, "100% English", whatever that means, by trying to explain some part of their identity by their genetic make-up ("Oh, far Eastern, so that's why I like spring rolls!").

I wonder whether that has any long-term effects, if they start feeling a little less hostile towards the particular ethnic group they are descended from. Makes me wish that test was both easily available, 1000% confidential, and required - that should have a positive outcome for some people with skeevy race issues.

Hairy Cis Women

( A documentary on body hair and its effects - ciswomen agree to stop removing their body hair for a period of two months. )

During which one of them is left by her boyfriend, apparently because he couldn't stand the sight of her hair, all experience drastic decrease in self-confidence ("I feel so ashamed!" "I feel so disgusting", etc.), have to listen to scepticism from both male ("I like my women smooth") and female ("How can you stand it? I would die of shame!") friends, and even though they're sceptic ("It does hurt, but you have to do it"), they keep doing it ("It's just the way it is", "I never knew why, I've done it since I was 11, probably because my mother shaved").

The best sentence ever: "I think that most women don't even know what their body hair looks like, because they have never let it grow that long."

I can't believe so many things about this report. The unreflected actions. The cheery acceptance of pain because OMG! someone might catch a glimpse of leg hair when swimming. I can't believe what not shaving does to their self-confidence. And I can't stand the arrogant entitlement with which their male partners in the documentary demand their women to be completely smooth without ever offering any insight into their own hairiness.

Why is this ever acceptable behaviour? How can you not accept someone solely because of their fucking hair? It's just hair. It doesn't do anything. It's just there. I shave because I like my skin smooth, but while I don't find extreme hairiness in other people attractive, I wouldn't dream of rejecting them so completely just because of that.