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searchsoleil) wrote2008-03-19 02:20 am
searchsoleil) wrote2008-03-19 02:20 am
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If I could stop laughing hysterically, I might die.
You know, you take a long weekend to do necessary RL things like reconnect with your parents and read a book before you go out of your mind, and in the mean time everyone and their mother starts putting the queer (as in BIZARRE) back into sexual orientation discrimination.
First is that Times article from Sunday, which just, I can't get started on this. Every girl in that suite is a sweetheart and my support lies firmly with them and my college. The horrible part is that in any other circumstance I would support an article exploring the changing role of gender, but knowing some of the underlying facts of this particular matter, I'm incensed instead. Fucking Alissa Quart and her conformation bias. The entire article seeks (rather ironically, I might add) to cast all transgendered people into the role of the misunderstood pioneer and every gender conformist in the world into either the role of oppressor or confused bystander. Like jerks don't exist in every frequency on the gender spectrum.
Second is the lovely news that LJ has censored "bisexuality" out of its popular interests, as well as other sexuality-friendly words, ranging from "hardcore," to fucking "faeries." FAERIES. I ASK YOU.
I kind of feel like climbing a tall building and announcing to the world that things don't have to be black and white. Some people even enjoy a healthy tour of the grey area every once in a while! Look at the freaking Best Picture nominees this year and it's like getting bludgeoned with a neon sign that says "AMBIGUITY IS THE NEW HOLLYWOOD BY-WORD."
Taking the quote slightly out of context: Climb out of your holes, people!
First is that Times article from Sunday, which just, I can't get started on this. Every girl in that suite is a sweetheart and my support lies firmly with them and my college. The horrible part is that in any other circumstance I would support an article exploring the changing role of gender, but knowing some of the underlying facts of this particular matter, I'm incensed instead. Fucking Alissa Quart and her conformation bias. The entire article seeks (rather ironically, I might add) to cast all transgendered people into the role of the misunderstood pioneer and every gender conformist in the world into either the role of oppressor or confused bystander. Like jerks don't exist in every frequency on the gender spectrum.
Second is the lovely news that LJ has censored "bisexuality" out of its popular interests, as well as other sexuality-friendly words, ranging from "hardcore," to fucking "faeries." FAERIES. I ASK YOU.
I kind of feel like climbing a tall building and announcing to the world that things don't have to be black and white. Some people even enjoy a healthy tour of the grey area every once in a while! Look at the freaking Best Picture nominees this year and it's like getting bludgeoned with a neon sign that says "AMBIGUITY IS THE NEW HOLLYWOOD BY-WORD."
Taking the quote slightly out of context: Climb out of your holes, people!