Gender Studies

A blog talking about different things related to gender studies for my class

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if you try to tell me that my consent is a blurred line, i will tell the police that my knee broke your penis because i’m an animal baby it’s in my nature.

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Chescaleigh on Slut Shaming becoming Victim Blaming. Props for her sharing her experience.

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i feel that although as Americans it seems that we are supperior to other countries when it comes to freedom and rights, we still oppress women maybe not in obvious ways but to tell a woman that being raped is her fault is oppressing her. It will make future women not want to speak up, it will make it easier for rapist to get away with it.

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lmaooooooo!! #teamgenderstudies

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In a move that’s been anticipated since this summer, the American Psychiatric Association has officially approved a revision to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) declassifying “gender identity disorder” as a mental illness.

The implications of this change: transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals’ identities are no longer considered mental illnesses. It’s astounding that it’s taken until now for this to happen. Homosexuality was declassified as a mental illness in 1973, and that was already pretty late in the game. 

Instead, people who may have been previously diagnosed with “gender identity disorder,” a label often used to discriminate against trans people, will be diagnosed with gender dysphoria to describe “the emotional distress that can result from ‘a marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender.’”

This will allow for affirmative treatment and transition care without the stigma of disorder. Earlier this year, the APA also released new health guidelines for transgender patients, as well as a position statement affirming transgender care and civil rights. Both documents align with a new standard for respecting trans people in the medical community.

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Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.

Terence McKenna (via franflow)

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Lesbian brutally beaten by girlfriend’s brother at Thanksgiving dinner cause he disapproved of relationship.

how fucking disturbing. Hate crimes because of sexual orientation shouldnt exist but it still does. I feel like this guy should be charged for attempted murder. This is disgusting im outraged. I hope someone beats his fuckin face in<\b>

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Oh hell no

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TW: Homophobic Language

This very  website counts how many times the no homo, faggot, so gay, and dyke are used on twitter in one day. You can watch the tweets appear in real time, with a constantly updated counter. The numbers are reset each day, and the database goes back to July 5th, 2012.

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I remember in class how we spoke about the common use of the word fag, homo, gay etc...so here it is for everyone to see. These words are used like common everyday vocabulary. <\b>

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This is my kid and she is 5

She wanted to take hulk with her to school today, and she was so happy that i took her pic. she loves avengers, she watched the movie multiple times, and she always asks me for their...

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“Mother,” I slowly repeated in Korean. “I am not a boy. I am a girl. I am transgender.” My face reddened, and tears blurred my vision. I braced myself for her rejection and the end to a relationship that had only begun. Silence again filled the room. I searched my mother’s eyes for any signs of shock, disgust or sadness. But a serene expression lined her face as she sat with ease on the couch. I started to worry that my words had been lost in translation. Then my mother began to speak. “Mommy knew,” she said calmly through my friend, who looked just as dumbfounded as I was by her response. “I was waiting for you to tell me.” “What? How?” “Birth dream,” my mother replied. In Korea some pregnant women still believe that dreams offer a hint about the gender of their unborn child. “I had dreams for each of your siblings, but I had no dream for you. Your gender was always a mystery to me.” I wanted to reply but didn’t know where to begin. My mother instead continued to speak for both of us. “Hyun-gi,” she said, stroking my head. “You are beautiful and precious. I thought I gave birth to a son, but it is OK. I have a daughter instead.”

Andy Marra, The Beautiful Daughter: How My Korean Mother Gave Me the Courage to Transition

Wow the emotion i felt when reading this was kind of over whelming. So many people when they come out either get rejected by their family or have to deal with the emotions of their parents. This mother understood.

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“Surely you don’t consider yourself a suitable example for this community’s young people, girls in particular.”

HOLD

THE

FUCK

UP.

Okay, before I write this I have to remember that this post is going to relate to my blog’s theme of gender; so I must put aside the fact that this man...

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in Cars…

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not how i see it. Its more like Fast, Faster, ok stop

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FUN HOME

This is an awesome graphic novel, i read it once before for a comic class which took a different view point. Reading it a second time for this class was like reading it for the first time. Its pretty interesting how alison and her father flipped gender roles, Alison wanted to be opposite of her father, and her father wanted to live through her. She felt her father was a sissy and she wanted to be opposite of sissy. What we have learned in class is that each gender has a certain representation, a certain norm for women its the feminine for men its the mascuilne "Its precise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as  a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or hers sex."(P97)While this may not be true for some people it was true for Alison and her father. Alison liked short hair, liked mens clothing she even was nicknamed "butch". Her father did not wear women's clothing but he dressed her how he pleased, every detail had to be perfect. He expressed his "femininity"/went against his gender role through his daughter and his home.

The difference between Alison and her father was that her father wasn't able to be himself completely  He married a women, had children and appeared to be the perfect ideal husband and father, to the public he filled his masculine role. However behind closed doors went against his gender role, because he liked to garden, decorate the house, and use bronzer. Alison on the other hand was able to go against her ascribed gender role completely. As a young girl she liked her hair short and she hated flowers and anything that her father liked. When she got older she wore "guy clothing" she accepted she was a lesbian and went public with it, unlike her father. It was a sad and liberating story. Sad because the father had to hide who he really was because society would except him. Liberating because despite what her mother thought or the gender norms society imposed Alison was herself to everyone. She hid nothing, she was more free than her father ever could be.

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Chauncey, "Bowery as Haven and Spectacle" from Gay New York

Bowery

I always like reading things or seeing things of old New York. It always seems like a different world. This reading defiantly showed how different the bowery was. Even though it consisted of lower class people doing what was seen as immoral they seemed to have ownership of their sexuality. Which middle class people didn't have. Middle class tried their best to conform to what was the norms of society but something kept drawing them back. It was a spectacle something they never seen before, something taboo, at the same time something they yearned to be a part of.  

What i didnt like was how gay men were called fairies. Fairies are mystical creatures who are usually associated with women. Calling gay men faeries de masculines them because its associates them with women. Making women and gay men inferior. Because gay men dont conform to their ascribed gender role they are bashed. They are categorized as less than masculine which would associate them with the "other gender" women. Gay men are feminized to be lesser to heterosexual men. Women are also lesser than heterosexual men. Seems like a never ending cycle.

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They Don't Want to Cruise Your Type: Gay Men of Color and the Racial Politics of Exclusion

In this essay the issue of race is portrayed. The issue is the power of whiteness and people of color n the gay community face this issue. People of colors opinions are often ignored.  Something that caught my eye was when Han brings up “. That is, whiteness is powerful precisely because it is every­where but nowhere in particular. When we see whiteness, we process it as  if it doesn't  exist or that its existence is simply natural.” White supremacy seems to be at an all time high. The gay community tries to fight for equal rights but there’s still inequality within this very community. Whiteness in every other community in the United States is the norm so it seems that in the fight for equality they are trying to fit the norm. Reading the little paragraphs of how men of other races felt invisible was sad. Its almost as if they don’t fit in anywhere, in the process of searching for themselves and trying to belong to a community they are still alone.