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instead of saying that everyone should be the same, wouldn't it be more practical to accept people's differences? not all labels are bad. |
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It's quite good, and bridges that theory/praxis gap of the other two books. I tend to call people what they want me to call them, whether it be s/he or Muffin or whatever. When referring to transgendered people to people who don't know them, I use the pronoun they've selected for themselves. I like it when people change their names to cool ones. Did I ever tell you I wanted to be a romance novelist under the pen name Candida al-Bicans? Anyone want to write romance novels with me? I've already mentally selected Agatha to do the cover art. |
Anyway. I've always felt kind of in between male and female. Leaning more toward female on the inside but acting more male. Meaning, not that I *feel* like a guy, but I just don't know how to *act* like a girl, according to our current social standards. Technically, since I am a girl, everything I do I do like a girl. I just don't fit into many female stereotypes. I'm more of a "head" person than "heart" person, for example. I'd rather beat someone up than cry when I get mad, for another example. And can I just say, I never understood why girls in my high school would want to hang out at malls to meet "guys." Not particular guys, mind you, just any random guys. "Y chromosome? Check. Let's go!" WTF? Guys aren't so special. They're just like girls, except different. (See what the final rush before graduation has done to my brain? I think like a twelve-year-old now.) |
anyway. i don't have a problem with being different based on having different sexual organs. i have a problem with the label of woman and man. female to me indicates a vagina. woman indicates a reaction to things. women are feminine they ... you know do girly things. men are masculine they do boyish stuff. feinberg's character isn't a man or a woman. jess (the character) is troubled because society gives (wish there was a neutral pronount to insert) a hard time because there is no identification with a particular gender. would you consider a label property? i believe i would. we strive to achieve the label of doctor, lawyer, X profession. we don't want to acquire a bad label. down with labels and property i say. |
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Sorta on topic: One of the nice things about going to a school like this is that every shade of the feminine-masculine spectrum is represented within one biological gender, from the really dainty girls to transgendered people. It has really helped me understand myself and humans in general. No one's a freak...we just all fall along different points of the same scale. We're all okay. |
I'm also repeatedly mistaken as a small man, which is really frustrating, since I don't really look like a man. (I will never forgive the boyfriend in high school who told me not to cut my hair because it would "make you look mannish.") Perhaps I just have gender identity issues? Who knows. Good luck with your presentations, Rhi. |
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I always start thinking about it when I'm pursuing someone, though, which is why it came to mind...I watched Boys Don't Cry on the flight back home. That movie fucked me up. I mean, it's wonderful, but...Jesus. |
in fact, i just interviewed tonight for a volunteer position with the university that would make me in charge of a group called concerned, active, and aware students. if i receive the position i hope to do an event drawing attention to the vast number of hate crimes committed toward transsexual individuals. it's something that people aren't well informed of, at least where i am from. |
I've labeled Rhiannon as intelligent, but she does not yet belong to me. Someday she will, but not yet. |
We'll shut down every Tim Horton's in Canada if we have to! |
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2) Gee, love, (G. Love?) just say the word and I'm yours. 3) Sem, is the organization trying to liberate me, or am I trying to liberate others? 4) J, I think there's a connection there....now that I don't care about people seeing me cry, I no longer want to beat them up. |
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as for the RLO, bring it on. We'll have another Troy. |
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of course we'll have to tinker with the ending a bit. |
Who gets to be Eris? |
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It is interesting, and perhaps significant, that the story of Iphigenia's sacrifice is not mentioned in the Iliad or the Odyssey, despite there being ample opportunity and reason to do so. The earliest source for the story is in the report we have of the lost Homeric Cypria (which is usually thought to date one to two centuries after the Homeric epics). In the next source, Aeschylus' play The Libation Bearers (c. 460 BC), Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon, mentioned the killing of Iphigenia as part of her justification for killing Agamemnon upon his return to Mycene after the Trojan War. The two plays of Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis, and Iphigenia at Tauris, are centered on the story of Iphigenia. The story also gets minor mention in Hesiod's Catalogue of Women and Eoiae 71, which reports that she was changed into the goddess Hecate instead of being sacrificed. The complexity of Iphigenia's story is present in many of the heroines of Greek mythology. Many of them appear either to have been goddesses in earlier times--which powers they have lost in the historical period--or are so similar to known goddesses that they appear to be hardly more than a different name for the same divinity. Iphigenia is so closely associated with Artemis, that her name is frequently seen as a mere epithet for Artemis (H.J. Rose p. 119.), which justifies the suspicion that Iphigenia might have originally been another competing virgin goddess of the hunt, whose character and functions were subsumed by Artemis. --------------------- Cassandra was the most beautiful of the daughters of Priam and Hecuba, the king and queen of Troy. She was given the gift of prophecy by Apollo, who wished to seduce her; when she accepted his gift but refused his sexual advances, he deprived her prophecies of the power to persuade. At the end of the Trojan War, Cassandra foresaw the danger posed by the Trojan horse; the people of Troy ignored her warnings and the Greek soldiers hiding inside the horse were able to capture the city. During the sack of Troy, Cassandra was raped by the Locrian (or "lesser") Ajax, and was then given as a war prize to Agamemnon. She returned to Greece with Agamemnon, and tried to warn him of the danger which awaited him there; once again her prophecy was ignored, and both she and Agamemnon were murdered by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. Etymology "She who entangles men" |
Sartre's 'Les Mouches' is fabulous in the thematic expansion and resignification of this material. |
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Or the band Cream? Or James Joyce? Jeezis, Sem, can't you just say what you mean once in a while? Chrissakes. |
Ulysses S Grant? Eddie Grant? Electric Avenue? Take Me Higher? |
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I was trying to say that Rhiannon is Helen, I'm Paris, and Semillama is Menelaus. Rhiannon has fled from Semillama and his cronies, into my warm and loving embrace. but fine, if you all want to just chose random figures, I want to be Anne Shirley. |
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