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fyeahgenderqueers: totallyawesomeyo: eins-zwei-drei-vier: thec...

Mon, 23 May 2011 18:25:00 -0500

fyeahgenderqueers:

totallyawesomeyo:

eins-zwei-drei-vier:

thechelstard:

notaiden:

Oh this is going to be rage-y.

Gender roles and gender norms and gender assumptions are a social construct. The idea that all little girls only like Barbies and glitter and no one else counts is a social construct. The overwhelming assumption that all women want to raise children and be mommies is a social construct. The ridiculous amount of allowance we give men to act like neanderthals is a social construct. That does not mean all of gender is a social construct.

If gender was entirely a social idea we would not have trans people. If gender was entirely based on this magical socialisation all people have in common we would not have this entire group of people who exist across cultures and races and socio-economic levels that stands up and says I AM NOT THE GENDER I WAS RAISED AS. We would not have effeminate trans men or butch trans women because we would fit into the predominant gender role construct.

Beyond that, not everyone is harmed by the way gender roles are enforced. There are many, many people who fit in perfectly with the predominant mode of thought. There are women who do like wearing makeup and getting dressed up and want to raise children more than anything. There are men who honestly do want to work with their hands and play football and don’t feel the need to show much emotion. There is nothing wrong with that. Their ability to fit in with 1950s ideas about how people of particular genders should behave does not make them any better or less than the flamingly gay guy wearing a skirt or the butch woman in flannel or the genderqueer person who wears glittery tops with ripped jeans. It just makes them different.

Does this mean we should simply accept gender roles as they are now? Of course not. Just because some people aren’t hurt by them doesn’t mean they should stay exactly the same. Society evolves, it changes, it becomes something that people who live 100 years in the past or future can’t recognise. That’s what’s happening now. We had a giant revolution in which women who wear pants were no longer considered scandalous, now we need one that allows men to wear skirts and people of all genders to behave in whatever manner they see fit so long as they aren’t hurting anyone. That has shit all to do with gender identity and everything to do with gender expression.

“There are many, many people who fit in perfectly with the predominant mode of thought. There are women who do like wearing makeup and getting dressed up and want to raise children more than anything. There are men who honestly do want to work with their hands and play football and don’t feel the need to show much emotion. There is nothing wrong with that.”

THANK YOU.

I have been waiting for someone to say this - what’s really hard is when you are straight and cisgender and want to support because you have several friends who are trans or genderqueer, yet you get this overall feeling that you’re less of a person than they are because you’ve *~*succumbed to the societal norms*~*

I would love for gender stereotypes to be abolished, yes - but I also would like to be a stereotypical girl without being ridiculed.

YESSSS OMG THANK YOU

I came to the realization recently that I am really not effeminate. I don’t need to call myself effeminate because really I’m not. I’m hardly queeny or anything. I dress like the typical Asian Pacsun-shopping dude. Half the guys in my English class wear the same damn kind and color of pants that I do. Sure, I look weird ‘cos I dress kind of punkish or whatever, Doc Martens, all that shit, but that doesn’t make me girly.

I think I wanted to tack a label of “femmey” or whatever onto myself because I wanted to justify the fact that yes, I make fannish squeals at Doctor Who, I cry, I like small adorable animals. But then again, so what? I don’t have a naturally effeminate persona. One or two “girl” behaviors doesn’t automatically make my gender expression variant.

Just.. All of this. Read it.

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I can see where you’re coming from, and I just wish to point out a couple of things:

“If gender was entirely a social idea we would not have trans people.”

This statement assumes that by “social construct” we’re talking also about our personalities, likes and dislikes. It also assumes that those things were constructed by society absolutely on us as blank slates, so that there is nothing of ourselves to begin with. (Basically, making the argument that gender identity is separate from gender in a significant enough way to warrant the need to qualify what we meant by gender.)

Those things become gendered but themselves are not gendered to begin with. Even ones choice of clothes or colors isn’t gender. Gender is a collection of norms and positions within society, defined through what they are not. A girl is not a boy. Etc.

If there was no gender (no social construct to categorize people) we’d not have trans people because trans is an explicit reference to gender. So is cis. We wouldn’t have any *gendered people at all. We also would have nothing in the way of the norms and taboos of society in relation to gender enforcement.

Without gender, you can be whomever you want and you are treated as you are, rather than as the boy/girl/whatever that people take you to be. It’s one’s identity, as opposed to one’s gender identity. You’re now your own self, an individual, as opposed to being necessarily a member of a group.

You can still be a she or a he or a ze, but the terms become more convenient placeholders than a normative role one is cast into. A girl isn’t shamed for being the victim of rape because there won’t be a gender she is supposed to be which would set her up to be shamed.

Obviously, some people fit into current gender norms, or at least closely enough that they don’t notice or care about the ways they bend the rules. It’s the people who lie outside those gender norms who feel the normative, dangerous, force that gender holds over us.

There’s no need for anyone to defend their desire to be a girly girl or an androgynous boy or a butch older woman. That’s exactly the point for the destruction of gender: be who you want to be.

pinkpanthers: Bash Back activists Look into the history of...

Wed, 18 May 2011 15:22:35 -0500

pinkpanthers:

Bash Back activists

Look into the history of Bash Back. These people are awesome.

"Ever notice how the women in Cosmopolitan magazine so often look like they’re a hair’s breath from..."

Mon, 16 May 2011 21:55:41 -0500

“Ever notice how the women in Cosmopolitan magazine so often look like they’re a hair’s breath from an orgasm? This goes for the ads as well as the editorials. Have you ever wondered: hmm, isn’t it sort of weird that a women’s magazine that is itself sold to women and is simultaneously trying to sell things to women should be filled with other women staring out of the pages making the kinds of dull-witted sexyfaces you’d expect them to be making at men whose attentions they were seeking? Why are women being instructed to look at women who are ostensibly looking at invisible men? The magazine is showing you women via the male gaze. The magazine is also training you to see yourself via the male gaze, and to put more currency in how you look to the outside observer, or how you look in a mirror, as opposed to how you look at the world, as a person seeing. The message is that women don’t see; they are only seen. You want a man? You wear these clothes, stand in this posture, make this sexyface: these are the symbols of the straight female. In a heteronormative, male-driven world, this what it means to be beautiful, or at least sexually available.”

- Madonna, Lady Gaga, and Breaking the Male Gaze | Fatshionista
(via knospen, curvesahead) (via hatari) (via somerset) (via loveyourchaos) (via rememo) (via princessketchup) (via queerandpresentdanger) (via ireensarrows)

To put it another way: to be a woman is to be seen. You want to be a woman? You do these things so that your appearance is sufficiently designed such that you are a woman.

That bit about wanting a man comes in a step or two later.

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genderqueer: Submitted by owldeermaybenexttime: I attended an...

Mon, 09 May 2011 13:04:00 -0500

genderqueer:

Submitted by owldeermaybenexttime:

I attended an awesome seminar the other week, where I spent a week hanging out with a lovely bunch of queers and debating. What’s even better is that I got this tshirt!

[A person with short, messy brown hair and glasses is standing with one fist raised and the other arm out-of-shot. She’s wearing a green tshirt with a vintage-style line drawing of a woman in the same pose. Written on the tshirt is “Not gay as in happy, but queer as in fuck you.”]

ftmark: but they always steal my grandmother’s church...

Sat, 07 May 2011 00:42:22 -0500

ftmark:

but they always steal my grandmother’s church hats

This is just a glorious picture. Makes me really happy :)

remnantof: aaronitron: stephensays: I love everything about...

Tue, 03 May 2011 02:27:16 -0500

remnantof:

aaronitron:

stephensays:

I love everything about this picture.

Meeeee tooooo! Fuck yeah gender bending!!!

u betta werk

cuntofdoom: glynnthomas: This image is particularly fitting...

Mon, 02 May 2011 23:12:59 -0500

cuntofdoom:

glynnthomas:

This image is particularly fitting right now.

[img: a political cartoon. There is a billboard that reads “WAR IS PEACE.” It has George W. Bush’s face on it, but a paperhanger is pasting up an image of Barack Obama, replacing Bush’s face.]

Why the US Military Sucks

Mon, 02 May 2011 23:05:04 -0500

Why the US Military Sucks:

democrasi:

phraznikov:

I was reading an article the other day, another one of those ones about how we (us college students) are getting fucked by budget cuts, and how student loan debt is the highest it’s ever been — even higher than credit card debt. And there’s a sort of inflation happening with college degrees; every year you’re paying more for a degree that’s worth less.

317,000 waiters and waitresses hold college degrees in the USA today.

But why? Why is this the case? I mean, we’re the dominant economic powerhouse in the world today — how do we not have enough money for our schools? How can our funds be so tight that we have to send a 22 year old college graduate with a six-figure debt to be a waiter?!

And then we look at the budget. And we see how much money we pour into the military. For 2011? $685.1 billion.

Are you fucking joking?! American citizens are don’t have enough to eat, and our government is spending $11.4 billion on developing F-35 Joint Strike Fighters?!?! This is horseshit. We’re like fucking children running this country, spending all of our money on the coolest looking toys! How about we throw the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter out the goddamn window and use the $11.4 billion to, I don’t know, cure cancer? And don’t worry, if that won’t do it we have a long list of fucking useless military projects to suck funds from.

Fuck the military.

In case you haven’t caught on, I’m opposed to the military. Like, not just what they do, but their entire existence.

Let me explain — I think we should have a defense budget. I think ourdefense budget should be a tenth of our current military budget. And I think that our defense budget should be devoted to developing defensive systems, like lasers that can disarm bombs in midair, or EMP emitters, or other nonlethaldefense technologies.

Military, on the other hand, can be done away with. I don’t want standing troops. I don’t want to spend any more money building guns and bombs and fighter jets. I don’t want to lose any more American lives (or cash) to fight a war that we shouldn’t be involved with anyways. Put all that money into reforming education, getting everybody’s basic necessities met, and funding scientific and technological progress. And put all that manpower into rebuilding our infrastructure or some other government project.

To sum it all up: the military is an addictive drug, and an expensive one at that. It’s taking all our money away from things we need and putting it into killing people. Can somebody try and justify this to me? I’m fucking baffled.

Porn This Way! (Queer Porn Cover of Lady Gaga's Born this Way)

Mon, 02 May 2011 22:42:49 -0500

cuntofdoom:

thecuntmentality:

undapperthoughts:

crashpadseries:

How awesome is this Lady Gaga Cover!?

Lyrics:
It doesn’t matter if you love hir, or capital H-I-R
Just turn that volume up
And watch queer porn, baby

Society told me when I was young
About various normative sexual scripts
I rolled my hair and put my lipstick on
And then tore those scripts to bits
There’s nothing wrong with wanting what you want
You know desire is a social construct
So when the lights are on, the cameras rolling
That’s when we all start getting fucked

It’s beautiful when you say
“Can I touch you there?” “Yes you may!”
We’re on the right track to make
Some hot queer porn today
Don’t exoticize bodies of color
Respectfully eroticize one another
We’re on the right track to make
Some hot queer porn today

Oh there are so many ways
To make queer porn worthy of praise
Let’s make some hot queer porn today

Oh there are so many ways
To make queer porn worthy of praise
We’re on the right track to make
Some hot queer porn today

You’re not an object — you are the subject
You’re not an object — you are the subject
You’re not an object — you are the subject
You are!

Let every lick melt heteropatriarchy
Every bite - right into white supremacy
Porn that humanizes is so hot
You’ll want that shit on DVD
Having the sex you want is not a sin
Believe capital H-I-R
Your body is your own so you can say
What really, really turns you on

It’s beautiful when you say
“Can I touch you there?” “Yes you may!”
We’re on the right track to make
Some hot queer porn today
Don’t exoticize bodies of color
Respectfully eroticize one another
We’re on the right track to make
Some hot queer porn today

Oh there are so many ways
To make queer porn worthy of praise
Let’s make some hot queer porn today

Oh there are so many ways
To make queer porn worthy of praise
We’re on the right track to make
Some hot queer porn today

You’re not an object - you are the subject
And your subjectivity is not a list
Of traits Lady Gaga considers “different”
Splotches of paint on her diversity palette
Erasing histories left and right
But we won’t go down without a fight
And we’ll go down after that fight
Cuz baby, we’re queering porn tonight

No matter queer or not
Consensual sex is hot
We’re on the right track to give
This one all that we’ve got
She says your identity was formed
All based on how you were born
Don’t need an excuse to be yourself
You’re great — now let’s make some porn

It’s beautiful when you say
“Can I touch you there?” “Yes you may!”
We’re on the right track to make
Some hot queer porn today
Don’t exoticize bodies of color
Respectfully eroticize one another
We’re on the right track to make
Some hot queer porn today

Oh there are so many ways
To make queer porn worthy of praise
Let’s make some hot queer porn today

Oh there are so many ways
To make queer porn worthy of praise
We’re on the right track to make
Some hot queer porn today

I like porn this way!
Queer porn this way!
We’re on the right track
Now let’s queer porn today

I like porn this way!
Queer porn this way!
We’re on the right track
Now let’s queer porn today

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CAN I GET THIS ON MY IPOD PLEASE?

This is much better than the original song. I fucking love this.

click earlier reblogs for the video/audio. For some reason it didn’t transfer over

♥

kitface: eins-zwei-drei-vier: kitface: ilnestjamaistroptard: ...

Mon, 02 May 2011 03:37:48 -0500

kitface:

eins-zwei-drei-vier:

kitface:

ilnestjamaistroptard:

thefeministhub:

padaviya:

thechocolatebrigade:

This is a photo of the first Black girl to attend an all white school in the United States—Dorothy Counts—being jeered and taunted by her white, male peers. This photo encompasses a lot of things that I really hate: prejudice, ignorance, racism, sexism, inequality…

I’ve reblogged this photo a few times before but it always needs to be reblogged again.

This picture makes me really sad. I am unbelievably impressed with her bravery.

what makes me even sadder is i still hear racist remarks given to asian and black people at my school

and we’re in 2011, guys

shouldn’t we have fixed this by now

scuse me while i call up the doctor and travel back in time and punch the assholes laughing behind her IN THE FACE

god

my school is like seventy percent asian so there’s rarely any asian jokes but god we have like two black kids and ugh all the racism jesus puking christ

this person called yuya

at least once a day people tell him to “open your eyes”

and he does a fake laugh

and then they laugh

and cos he shrugs it off instead of telling them why it’s problematic

they keep doing it

neutresex: [photo: black and white scanning. the text reads,...

Mon, 02 May 2011 03:22:19 -0500

neutresex:

[photo: black and white scanning. the text reads, “if you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” a quote of malcolm x.]

Rep. Cleveland had in his office at the NCGA this magazine that had a cover picture of a Latino male holding a gun towards the camera (fine focus and all) and the headline is like, “mexico’s worst assassins.” And I’m just like, okay here’s this office of this racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, white, old, rich, privileged man trying to “be a good citizen” by “informing” his constituents about “current events” and using scare tactics that perpetuate Latin@s (using an exclusive ethnic group) as horrible criminals while most of them are working underpaid jobs, working jobs that aren’t even paid, don’t have access to public benefits even while paying taxes and contributing to the economy in alternative methods. What the actual fuck?

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Mon, 02 May 2011 03:11:32 -0500

hopeydopey526:

heirforceone:

recklesscinderella:

youjustwaitandsee:

mother-war-welcomes-you:

aftermathissecondary:

FUCKING PRESS PLAY AND HAVE YOUR MIND BLOWN OUT OF THE BACK OF YOUR GODDAMN SKULL. JUST DO IT.

I CAN’T EVEN FUCKING COMPREHEND THIS

That’s so amazinggggggggggggggg.

FUCK YOU THAT WAS AMAZING .

could have sworn i saw this guy in a street in italy once… so cool.

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sexisbeautiful: please and thank you.

Mon, 02 May 2011 02:57:27 -0500

sexisbeautiful:

please and thank you.