Gender issues

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"Women! Someday is today"

Some choice quotes from the article:

Is motherhood instinctive or learned behavior? Both religion and science tell us that it is instinctive, much to the distaste of the feminist ideologists, who have never been overburdened by a solid grasp on either.

Let everyone know that marriage and children is your ultimate goal. Too many women, fearing the wrath of the Sisterhood, secretly wish for them while publicly and piously professing feminist-approved cant to the contrary.

Shed your man-hating friends, as well as those who buy seriously into the Equalitarian dogma.

Don't you love the totalitarian-style callout to women? And of course, we all know that feminism isn't about hating the oppression of people based on their sex and/or gender - it's just about hating men! :-P

In other news, i had a very brief rant in the queer_rage community about some transphobia i encountered earlier today. As always, i'm saddened and disappointed to see queers treating other queers with such disdain. :-(
 

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[not-in-denial.livejournal.com]

head + desk = my thoughts on both those points.

[flexibeast.livejournal.com]

*sad nod*

Re. the trans stuff, it's been a really full-on thread - it's been implied that i should just grow up, choose to be either all male or all female, and then lead a 'normal' life. :-(

[not-in-denial.livejournal.com]

SDLFKSSDFDLSFHSLK. *spasms and dies*

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What kind of brain-washed narrow-minded binary-obsessed oh-no-please-don't-mess-up-my-pretty-world-illusions person would say such things? For that matter, why pick on polygendered type people for not leading "normal" lives? What about goths? They're not leading "normal" lives. What about people who choose to work as travelling musicians? They're not leading "normal" lives...what the heck is a "normal" life supposed to be anyway? The most influential people in history were people that dared to live abnormal lives.

How dare this person imply that living any life other than corporate white trash is invalid? (Not that there's anything wrong with living as corporate white trash if it makes people happy...but that's not the point.)

I hope karma bites them in the butt. >(
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[flexibeast.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

At least people's comments on queer_rage have been supportive . . . . i find being attacked by a queer person to be more difficult to cope with than being attacked by a straight person, because i keep (forlornly) thinking that their own experiences of being queer will help them to understand where i'm coming from.

[not-in-denial.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. *hugs* Well, unfortunately for us, it appears that assholes come in all walks of life :D *sigh*

[flexibeast.livejournal.com]

*nods sadly, and accepts hugs gratefully*