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March 10 2012
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December 01 2011
via MtWTFBBQ - Yay for obscurity! by *AtomicFireball
November 22 2011
TED India 2009, Filmed Nov 2009; posted Jan 2010
sellerieOctober 27 2011
“ By Ms. Hvistendahl's counting, there have been so many sex-selective abortions in the past three decades that 163 million girls, who by biological averages should have been born, are missing from the world. ”— Book Review: Unnatural Selection - WSJ.com
October 16 2011
“— Get Your Antifemininity Out of My Feminism – this ain't livin'I want to live in a world where little girls are not pinkified, but where little girls who like pink are not punished for it, either. We can certainly talk about the social pressures surrounding gender roles, and the concerns that people have when they see girls and young women who appear to be forced into performances of femininity by the society around them, but let’s stop acting like they have no agency and free will. Let’s stop acting like women who choose to be feminine are somehow colluders, betraying the movement, bamboozled into thinking that they want to be feminine. Let’s stop denying women their own autonomy by telling them that their expressions of femininity are bad and wrong.
Antifemininity is misogynist. What you are saying when you engage in this type of rhetoric is that you think things traditionally associated with women are wrong. Which is misogynist. By telling feminine women that they don’t belong in the feminist movement, you are reinforcing the idea that to be feminine and a woman is wrong, that women who want to be taken seriously need to be more masculine, because most people view gender presentation in binary ways.
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August 07 2011
I hate the way Finch drew and posed Wonder Woman on the cover of Justice League. But here’s an excellent visual example of why. The rest of Justice League in the same pose (and similar costume).
July 26 2011
July 12 2011
“— X-Men: First Class Commentary of the Day - TDW GeeksX-Men: First Class Commentary of the Day: Alyssa Rosenberg at ThinkProgress posted an insightful piece about the mutant rights/gay rights metaphor in X-Men: First Class, and things in the comments got a bit heated.
A long thread where a troll insisted that “there’s nothing gay about X-Men” was shut down by First Class screenwriter Zack Stentz, who showed up to post this classic bit of ownage:
Um, no offense, but you’re wrong. I helped write the movie, and can tell you the gay rights/ post-holocaust Jewish identity / civil rights allegory stuff was all put in there on purpose. Joss Whedon designed the whole “Cure” storyline in the comic books specifically as a gay allegory, and Bryan Singer wove his own feelings of outsiderdom as a gay man into the movie series. The whole “Have you ever tried NOT being a mutant” coming out scene in X2 isn’t even particularly subtle, while it is effective.
I’d say that pretty much settles things.
Screenshot after the jump.
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mushu
July 11 2011
“ The Egalia Preschool in Stockholm rejects gender identity altogether, choosing not to address children as either “him” or “her” and using toys, books and other school materials that strictly avoid gender stereotypes. Traditional children’s stories like “Snow White” and “Cinderella” are banished from the school’s bookshelves. ”— TODAYMoms - No 'he' or 'she' at gender-free preschool
queergeeks“ In what is believed to be a world first, Nepal's Central Bureau of Statistics is giving official recognition to [...] not only on the country's men and women, but also a so-called third gender. ”— Nepal census recognizes 'third gender' - CNN.com
queergeeksJuly 04 2011
“ Oh no, it's not condescending at all to be given respect for being a particular kind of woman, rather than simply a human being. You have to respect the ladies in a different way than you respect men. Because otherwise that might lead to gender equality. ”— runpunkrun: Books: Bryson, Palahniuk, Lanyon, Bujold, Starck, Gerritsen.
July 02 2011
June 21 2011
(the first rule of fandom is: you don't ask why.)
June 17 2011
White Male Bloggers Want Everything But the Burden of Oppression - COLORLINES
In the media business, we frequently use the maxim “three makes a trend.” So far I haven’t heard about another white heterosexual man passing as, say, a Syrian lesbian or deaf lesbian mother of two, but I’m sure one will emerge in the next 10 minutes. In the meantime—for you folks who have been too busy being a member of a systematically oppressed group—allow me to recap.
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what's the big deal, right? everyone knows lesbians aren't real.
article also has an embed of the guardian's webcam interview with tom mcmaster.
via feminist hulk twitter with the brilliant phrasing "THE HALLUCINOGENIC MOLD ON THE UNDERSIDE OF CULTURAL PRIVILEGE".
June 13 2011
“ In typical trans 101 discussions, right now I would probably be explaining to you that “gender is a spectrum” and drawing a cute little line graph labeled “m” at one end and “f” at the other. But this would be fallacious, as well as total bullshit. Gender is not a line, it is a huge three-dimensional space too big to be bounded by the concepts of “male” and “female.” Being trans is not always about falling “in between” binary genders, and as often as not, it’s about being something too expansive for those ideas to have meaning at all. ”— tranarchism
lasagneJune 10 2011
“ Unfortunately, while masculinity is pretty delicate, the construct of Box is quite resilient. When I get up in front of a group and start talking about it, I immediately demonstrate that I’m not in the Box because the guy in the Box doesn’t talk about it. The difference, of course, is that I reject the entire notion of the Box. I’ve learned to pick and choose what aspects of masculinity work for me and which ones don’t, since some of the things in the box are positive or at least dependent on one’s relationship to them. In effect, I’ve queered the Box but to the guy who’s stuck in it, the only place he can imagine me being is outside the Box. And he’s so used to not listening to those men that it’s hard for my message to get across. That makes the task of helping get rid of the Box really difficult. ”— The Performance of Masculinity | Charlie Glickman
the 'act like a man' box
June 09 2011
June 01 2011
April 22 2011
“ stay the hell away from heterophobic post-gender/post-modern/pan-sexual cultural-studies majors whose immaturity, self-loathing, and anger all manifest in a refusal to accept that a good guy can also be a straight guy. ”— Savage Love
ilusfm, dan savage.
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