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[MaybeADayOff] A track by berlin artist Sookee, title translates "some of my best friends ar...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:31:34 GMT

A track by berlin artist Sookee, title translates "some of my best friends are men"

[Reposted from MaybeADayOff]

[seekuh] Oglaf - The pea

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:29:55 GMT

Oglaf - The pea

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[finkregh] via Erika Moen » Gender

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:30:28 GMT

via Erika Moen » Gender

go. read it now.

[OnTheRun] What gender is and is not

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:52:20 GMT

What gender is and is not

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[MaybeADayOff] (Video)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:25:28 GMT

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[lasagne] shit people say to femmes (via)

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:42:20 GMT

shit people say to femmes (via)

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[shlomo] (Video)

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:39:40 GMT

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Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:23:21 GMT

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[pnk] biological vs. cultural differences. (via)

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:31:52 GMT

biological vs. cultural differences. (via)

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[hairinmy] "We started off with a lesson about toys because it’s a simple topic I knew my..."

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:34:23 GMT

We started off with a lesson about toys because it’s a simple topic I knew my students thought they had clear ideas about. The class gathered on the carpet and I read William’s Doll, which is about a boy who, against the wishes of his father, wants a doll more than anything.

After we read the story, I taped up two large pieces of paper and wrote “Boys” on one and “Girls” on the other. “Students,” I said, “what are some toys that are for boys?” Eagerly, the students began to shout out their answers: “Legos!” “Hot Wheels!” “Skateboards!” “Bikes!” The list grew quite long. “OK,” I said, “now tell me some toys that are for girls.” “Baby dolls!” “Nail polish!” “Barbies!” “Makeup!”

When we had two extensive lists, I read both lists out loud to the class and then studied them carefully.

“Hmm,” I said. “Here it says that Legos are for boys. Can girls play with Legos?”

“Yes!” most of them replied without hesitation.

“I wonder if any of the girls in our class like to play with Hot Wheels?”

“I do! I do!” blurted out some of the girls. We continued with the rest of the items on our “Boys” list, making a check mark next to each one as it was declared acceptable for girls.

Then we went on to the “Girls” list. We started with baby dolls. Because we had just read and discussed William’s Doll, the children were OK with boys playing with dolls. “It’s great practice for boys who want to be daddies when they grow up,” I mentioned.

But when we got to nail polish and makeup the children were unsure. “There are some very famous rock ’n’ roll bands,” I said, “and the men in those bands wear a lot of makeup.” Some of the children gasped.

Then Isabela raised her hand: “Sometimes my uncle wears black nail polish.” The students took a moment to think about this.

“My cousin wears nail polish, too!” said another student. Soon many students were eager to share examples of how people pushed the limits on gender. Our school engineer, Ms. Joan, drove a motorcycle. Jeremy liked to dance. I could see the gears turning in their brains as the gender lines started to blur.

–One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom

[Reposted from lordminx via isis]

[finkregh] Gender4Nerds S01E02 “oh noez... even more?” click here if you missed the...

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:50:29 GMT

Gender4Nerds S01E02 “oh noez... even more?”

click here if you missed the first episode

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[sofias] btw: almost all ragefaces feature a generic masculinum meaning that an androg...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:42:07 GMT

btw: almost all ragefaces feature a generic masculinum meaning that an androgynous bald scribbleface is assumed to be male and masculine until specified otherwise. i am slightly annoyed my that. stereotypical male harcuts for ragefaces anyone?

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[finkregh] kill your gender! via sincerely hana

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:31:52 GMT

kill your gender! via sincerely hana

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[shlomo] "Das Thema selbst ist schon schwierig für 12 bis 13jr und die Schilderung eine..."

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:39:55 GMT

"Das Thema selbst ist schon schwierig für 12 bis 13jr und die Schilderung einer völlig einseitigen Welt von Homosexualität im Film könnte hier zu einer Desorientierung in der sexuellen Selbstfindung führen."

–Dieser Film macht schwul… meint die FSK - Die Fünf Filmfreunde

[Reposted from ekelias via shlomo]

[hairinmy] "Fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more f..."

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:05:50 GMT

Fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more freedom than men. And I don’t think it’s an accident that it’s typically seen as shallow, trivial, and vain. It is the height of irony that women are valued for our looks, encouraged to make ourselves beautiful and ornamental… and are then derided as shallow and vain for doing so. And it’s a subtle but definite form of sexism to take one of the few forms of expression where women have more freedom, and treat it as a form of expression that’s inherently superficial and trivial. Like it or not, fashion and style are primarily a women’s art form. And I think it gets treated as trivial because women get treated as trivial.

—

Fashion is a Feminist Issue: Greta Christina

–Serious Business

[hairinmy] HU-Semesterumfrage Die SoWis haben's begriffen: Gender-Freifeld FTW!

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:54:04 GMT

HU-Semesterumfrage

Die SoWis haben's begriffen: Gender-Freifeld FTW!

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[shlomo] "SOUP! When will you understand, that memes with women in kitchens and women m..."

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:30:23 GMT

"SOUP! When will you understand, that memes with women in kitchens and women making sandwiches are nothing else but sexist bullshit?"

–me

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[hairinmy] "I've got the feeling, that as woman you are not recognizeduntil it's just im...

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:12:38 GMT

"I've got the feeling, that as woman you are not recognized

until it's just impossible to ignore you.

" via comic-sport

[Reposted from hanhaiwen via yetzt]

[hairinmy] "When a woman looks in the mirror, Kimmel said,they see a woman. But when a ma..."

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:14:37 GMT

"When a woman looks in the mirror, Kimmel said,
they see a woman. But when a man – a white straight middle class man, at
least – looks in the mirror, he just sees a person. The assumption of
white straight middle class man as standard and objective, as the norm,
in our culture, means that white straight middle class men have no
reason to think particularly hard about race, class or gender, since
everything around them confirms that they are normal. Women, people of
color, queer people or poor people, those who don’t see themselves
depicted as average members of our society, are aware of that dissonance
every single moment of the day.

In other words, privilege – in this case, the privilege of being assumed to be the best possible representative of your culture – is invisible. Men, Kimmel said, don’t think about being men in the same way that women think about being women, or think about being white in the same way that people of color think about being people of color. They don’t believe they have biases or prejudices that affect their experience of the world; it’s for this reason that when a Latina was nominated for the Supreme Court, it was assumed that she would bring biases and prejudices with her. It seemingly never occurred to the largely white, largely male Senate that questioned her at length about those biases that straight white men, who comprise the SCOTUS and much of the Senate, also inevitably have biases. In their mind, they were objective and neutral."

–Michael Kimmel

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[hairinmy] "I want to live in a world where little girls are not pinkified, but where lit..."

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:10:29 GMT

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.

–Get Your Antifemininity Out of My Feminism – this ain't livin'

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Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:04:43 GMT

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[finkregh] "[...]Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine tells one story in the grimdark universe..."

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:14:41 GMT

[...]

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine tells one story in the grimdark universe of the far future, 40,000 years in fact - one of many that happen on a daily basis throughout the infinite space - no one story, no one quest, no one journey or war holds supreme gravitas above all - all is terrible, all is depressing, there is nothing but war and death. The player plays as Titus, a Space Marine Captain in the Ultramarines chapter. A Space Marine is a genetically engineered, 9 foot tall super badass, who could take on a thousand orks singlehandedly and live to tell the tale. He’s dispatched to secure a planet - a planet that produces all sorts of weapons for the Imperium of Man - which is undergoing a severe Ork invasion on a massive scale, and the Imperial Guardsmen (non-genetically engineered regular everyday soldiers) can’t hold the line.

To spare you spoilers, and ruining the plot for anyone interested at this point, let me tell you shit gets worse. A lot worse. The situation on the ground is apocalyptically horrible on a world-wide scale and as it turns out, the Imperial Guardsmen are royally screwed. Well, they would be, if it wasn’t for one person. Let me introduce one of the best female characters in a videogame I’ve seen in a long time.

This is 2nd Lieutenant Mira, and she’s the leader of an Imperial Guard force, mainly because all of her leaders and commanding officers? Dead. All her Commissars, 1st Lieutenants, so on and so on? Massacred. She’s the one person keeping the army of men on this world besieged by an alien force functioning and fighting, and she isn’t oversexualized, treated as weak, nor needing a man, fuck no good readers. Mira doesn’t have time for this motherfucking conventional treatment of motherfucking women in motherfucking videogames.

Mira doesn’t give a shit for fan servicing the nerds. She’s running an entire fucking army against horrible fucking monsters, goddamn Orks, who are completely oblivious to the fact that they’re latent telepaths and the only reason any of their technology works is because they fucking believe it goddamn works, and charge into a fight like a shark smells blood - they are horrid beasts that would take the heart of any man. Mira doesn’t have time for your fucking whining, goddamn no. She’s managing multiple fronts, keeping her men on the motherfucking line shooting, keeping sentry turret defenses up, making sure air fucking transports are taking motherfucking things where they need to goddamn go, I mean, holy fuck, if you took the storyline to this game and gave it to an obscure independent strategy game developer in the late 90s, you wouldn’t be playing as Titus at fucking all, because Mira’s story is way more fascinating and entertaining on the sheer fucking scale, and the reliance, of the big strong manly man that is Captain Titus, who is so fucking manly he has metal bolts drilled in his forehead to show his rank on the battlefield, has to rely on Mira on multiple occasions to move the plot motherfucking forward, and you know what? They have a completely platonic fucking relationship. Captain Titus has to have his ass pulled out of the fire in the very end by Mira, who ends up catching him in mid-fucking-air with a lucky dropship catch, and there’s no forced romantic subtext or any of that horseshit. No, none of that.

And that’s just the cinematics. In certain sections of the actual game, Mira’s fighting right fucking alongside you in the shit - against the terrifying horrors of the universe, against giant eight foot tall ubermensch, not being a damsel in distress or someone to be babied - she’s shooting and shouting and being the complete hardass she goddamn righteously is.

I finished Space Marine this evening, and what I remember most, is Second Lt. Mira’s character. It’s actually quite refreshing to see a strong, independent female character in videogames. A woman who stands strong under an immense burden and isn’t treated as a sex object, or relying on men, but instead an inspiration to the fighting soldiers under her and a strong, competent leader who the main character relies upon again and again.

While 2011 is far from over, but I would have to say the Space Marine is definetely reaching for the top of the list as far as socially progressive videogames this year, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes solid action, blood and explosions, and a strong female character stealing the show.

–http://designislaw.tumblr.com/post/10076180504/warhammer-40-000-space-marine-most-suprisingly

[Reposted from finkregh]

[lasagne] Go online, read awesome blogs, forget that transphobia exists.

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:24:11 GMT

Go online, read awesome blogs, forget that transphobia exists.
Die inside when friends make jokes about "chicks with dicks" IRL.
(Fuck Yeah Non-Binary Seahorse)

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[yetzt] Hurra, es ist eine Polysuppe!Eine Suppengruppe zu Polyamorie:poly.soup.io

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:33:17 GMT

Hurra, es ist eine Polysuppe!

Eine Suppengruppe zu Polyamorie:

poly.soup.io

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[lasagne] "Hen" is a Swedish gender neutral pronoun that is rather unknown at the momen...

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:51:47 GMT

"Hen" is a Swedish gender neutral pronoun that is rather unknown at the moment. (via)

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[finkregh] "Biological gender is, as far as many are concerned, strictly between a person..."

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:22:28 GMT

"Biological gender is, as far as many are concerned, strictly between a person and their doctor. I don't think we should collect medical information. :)"

–Ian Baker comments on Mediawiki Bug 30442 – give the user a chance to specify the gender when opening the account

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[finkregh] "Ich bin eine Frau. Ich habe zwei Brüste, eine Gebärmutter. Ich trage keine Ho..."

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:31:49 GMT

Ich bin eine Frau. Ich habe zwei Brüste, eine Gebärmutter. Ich trage keine Hosen, meine Haare sind lang. Meine Fuß- und Fingernägel sind lackiert. Ich gehe so gut wie nie ungeschminkt aus dem Haus. Ich fahre einen Kleinwagen, interessiere mich nicht sonderlich für Technik. In meiner Freizeit nähe ich gerne und treffe mich mit Freunden.

Ich lebe in einer Gesellschaft, in der die eindeutige geschlechtliche Zuordnung eines der Hauptbedürfnisse zu sein scheint. In der es notwendig ist, sich einem Lager zuzuordnen. Dieses Lager bietet mir Handlungsvorgaben. Zu Körpersprache, Lieblingsfarben, Gesprächsthemen, Literaturempfehlungen, Gehaltsstufen, Karriereverläufen. Alles muss eindeutig sein, verständlich, klar abgegrenzt. Die obige Beschreibung meiner Person umfasst (nicht ganz zufälligerweise) eindeutig weibliche Eigenschaften. Oder etwa nicht?

Führt nicht allein die Tasache, dass ich Brüste und lange Haare habe dazu, dass ich als Frau identifiziert werde? Und jeder weitere Schritt führt zur Verdeutlichung meiner Rolle, macht mein Gegenüber sicherer, dass es recht hat mit seiner Einschätzung. Und dass alle weiteren impliziten Annahmen jetzt bestimmt auch noch auf mich zutreffen werden.

Warum kann ich nicht ausnahmsweise mal anders klassifiziert werden? Ist ja klar, dass Du am liebsten Schokoladen-Eis isst, du bist ja auch Rechtshänderin. Seid doch mal ein bisschen kreativer!

Ich lebe in einer geschützten Welt, in einer Blase voller gendersensibler Menschen. Trotzdem ist mein Alltag geprägt durch mein Geschlecht. Muss ich mir zum Beispiel gefallen lassen, dass mir Menschen nachpfeifen? Und wenn ich mich darüber beschwere, reagiere ich dann wirklich empfindlich und sollte mich statt dessen lieber mal über das Kompliment freuen? Muss ich in der Autowerkstatt „Frollein“ genannt werden? Der man geduldig und langsam erklärt, was zu tun ist? Anstatt dass einfach akzeptiert wird, dass ich mir erlaube, bestimmte Dienstleistungen an andere abzutreten. Und dass ich mir niemals merken werde, warum mein Auto jetzt diese Geräusche macht. Und dass das nichts damit zu tun hat, dass ich Eierstöcke habe, sondern einfach nur einem jahrelang gepflegtem Desinteresse geschuldet ist? Muss ich mich wirklich darüber freuen, wenn mir jemand sagt, ich sei „appetitlich“ und mir dabei in den Ausschnitt starrt? Und mich dann noch ernsthaft verteidigen, wenn ich das vermeintliche Kompliment abwehre? Dass ich in Diskussionen im Notfall mit „Schätzchen“ angesprochen werde oder mir mangelnde Sachlichkeit vorgeworfen wird, und zwar ausgerechnet von den Personen, die vorher die Schätzchen-Karte gezogen haben? Dass Professoren über meinen Forschungsschwerpunkt herziehen oder genderneutrale Sprachregelungen boykottieren? Denen zu weiblichen Doktoranden nur Angebote zur Kinderbetreuung einfallen? Dass ich ernsthaft die Quote diskutieren muss, „weil dann ja die schlechteren Frauen die besseren Männer verdrängen“? HALLO?!
Und das im Jahr 2011. Gibt eine eindeutige Zuschreibung tatsächlich so viel Sicherheit, dass sie unverzichtbar ist?

Die Konfrontation mit diesen Themen und den Personen, die sie vertreten, oder sich der beschriebenen Strategien bedienen, führt manchmal zur absoluten Fassungslosigkeit, zu Entsetzen. Und im schlimmsten Fall zu Ohnmacht.
Macht aus mir nicht die Person, die euch gut in den Kram passt. Lasst mich da raus.

–Wut «

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[hairinmy] gender bender

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:39:27 GMT

gender bender

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[emmalead] Help Avery Win Some Boobs!

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:15:41 GMT

One of my local radio stations is having a contest. The winner will recieve breast implants. Avery, is a transgendered woman, and a finalist in this contest. She has the chance to win a wonderful set of breasts, something the other contestants were born with. Please help her to win by going to this website and voting for her. She is contestant number four. Together we can help Avery become the woman she is.

http://www.ampradiocalgary.com/index.asp?mn=3&id=3247&cc=3

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[lasagne] (Image)

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:36:43 GMT

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[lasagne] "In typical trans 101 discussions, right now I would probably be explaining to..."

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:03:54 GMT

"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

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[hairinmy] L0031936 Credit: Wellcome Library, London

Sun, 29 May 2011 00:45:55 GMT

L0031936 Credit: Wellcome Library, London
Intersex Society of North America
www.isna.org PO Box 3070 MI 48106-3070
‘Phall-O-meter’ (Showing in actual scale current
medical standards employed to determine nature of
genital plastic surgery for children born with
mixed sex anatomy)
In copyright ?
Collection: Wellcome Images

[lasagne] Chris Crocker: I am not my gender!

Wed, 25 May 2011 22:54:33 GMT

Chris Crocker: I am not my gender!

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