gender_euphoric

This journal is now somewhat friends only.
So, if ya want in, leave me a comment and I'll see what I can do.
This silly livejournal is now guarded by a vicious, killer kitten.

stage one of friends list cull:
removed people who have unfriended me or never added me to begin with.
planned stage two: weeding out some comms I never read.

i wrote a pathetic "poem" about myspace and it won't let me post it as a blog, so here:

i haven’t been on here in a long time
my myspace
is dissociative
full of people who i don't talk to anymore
& who don't talk to me
& pictures that don't look like me.
it's not really "mine" at all.
it's like a postcard from 2006.
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un/relatedly i want to slam a bedroom door shut and listen to team dresch in a huff. lol.

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Poll #1279623 cat limbs
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So, you know how cats have four limbs and four paws? Yes? Are the front two limbs/paws...

do you think animals can tell the difference between human hands and feet?

Poll #1259279 this icon is perfect right now
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Are you on fire?

What would you give for your kid fears?

I was going to school at Madison Area Technical College in Madison, Wisconsin. I was in the student publication office, checking my email on yahoo. After I logged out yahoo dumped me back on their news page. I happened to notice a small story about a plane hitting an office building in New York--it must have been right after the first plane hit. The story was very tentative. I had to go my 9 o'clock class, but I remember as I was leaving the school paper adviser said something like "this is no accident." ( Read more... )

MORE INTERESTS
(i'm afraid this one isn't quite as interesting.)
from go_team_venture

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I ponied up and dashingdeviant picked 7 of my livejournal interests and I explained them. Comment if you'd like to be put on the spot about 7 of your livejournal interests as well. (;

1. (not) destroying the gender binary.
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this is probably something i should have posted about a long time ago, but just as an fyi--
if you post something somewhere that equates fatness = bad eating habits (and/or a certain activity level), and fatness = unhealth, and you do so in a "THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN! OBESITY OBESITY!" moral panic tizzy, *and* you aren't open to hearing about how it's a lot more complicated than that and somewhat inconclusive irt 'health effects'--you will receive OMG SO MEEN comments from me: a smart, thinking fat person. if you aren't a doctor, don't be judging someone's "health" based on the way they look--unless they are coughing up blood or something.

If you want to lose weight because you want to modify your body, fine. kudos. i have absolutely no problem with your body and what you want to do with it. i want people to feel good in their bodies however that can be.

but remember to fucking think once in awhile and, uh, examine your prejudices. if you have internalized fat phobia, as we all have: fucking own it, for once. it's not just that i hate prejudice. i really and truly hate lazy thinking.
further food for thought: http://kateharding.net/but-dont-you-realize-fat-is-unhealthy/

catherine's having her routine, necessary surgery today. no more howling! wish her luck.

sometimes i like to keep a little list of words i see people misusing.
list for today:
penultimate
nonplussed
perused
bemused

have you noticed any others? i try not to correct people, but i just did and am probably going to get flamed for it. i think misuse of penultimate bothers me most of all--because if you are just parsing it "extra ultimate"--where have you seen "pen" used as a prefix that way?
ps: this is not meant to say i'm the super most awesomest (penultimate?) word man or something...i frequently have to think through affect/effect and emigrant/immigrant in writing. lucky for me you can fudge it in speech!

Seeing Julia Serano speak at Northwestern today was super awesome cool. She even skewered J. Michael Bailey, who evidentially still teaches at NU, to this day.
One thing she pointed out at the end was how any bruhaha over the APA DSM appointee debacle (added a link: http://www.bilerico.com/2008/05/uh_oh.php; if you have a better link let me know) must be focused on how it could/does affect gender non-conforming children, particularly male assigned gender non-conforming children.
I also asked her a question about the usage of transgender as an overarching political term, and how transgender doesn't resonate with me, though I do know that "transitioning" is considered (i suppose highly) gender non-conforming--I still have trouble with that because I lack any identification with a female or feminine past, and don't want a "label from above" that claims to know my past better than I do. But I have been thinking about it and I do see some cause for solidarity under a "transgender" banner; though it is hard for me to accept that because of how mis-nomerish that seems.
She also said something like "Judith Butler never said 'all gender is performance'" and I about fell out of my little lecture desk with glee. She might have said "performative" and not "performance", but same idea. I enjoy laughing at Judith Butler jokes, especially faux-J.B. that's been filtered through a decade of minor engagement with her theory, and JB in pop culture.
She also poked fun at her own book cover as she was talking about how books involving trans feminine spectrum people tend to depict what can be viewed as feminine artifice, but books about trans men just feature straight on pictures of dudes. (She didn't say "dudes".)
The only thing that bothered me even slightly was the discussion around the privileging of trans masculine people and the devaluing of trans feminine people (especially in queer women's circles, and she lives in SF after all)--and it didn't bother me because I disagree with her (um, eta: this is phrased somewhat awkwardly. i agree with her, if that makes it more clear). It's a troubling phenomenon and it bothers me to realize how complicit I am in it.
Anyway, this is getting long. I wonder if I'll ever engage with critical theory again and become someone important. I have the brains for it--I just am so fucking lazy. And I'm an ideas person and not a details person.