Yeah, I understand what you're saying. I never really said, or intended to say, that they're victims though. They're just playing into the patriarchal machine. That's not victimhood, it's compliance. But just because these women will willingly play along with (posted to More offensive advertising for Burger King)
"We, of all people, should be able to understand, respect, and celebrate differences. Indeed, its the only way we'll ever progress." I don't know why but I always have these knee-jerk reactions about people saying we should embrace the gender (posted to Is it possible to raise a child outside the gender binary?)
"But then I also do care about my appearance and notice a perceptible difference in how my interactions with other people go based on how nice I look. Gaa!" Omg yes! This happened to me the other day. Usually I (posted to Makeup is Anti-feminist?)
I like wearing eye makeup; heavy eyeliner and weird colored eyeshadows; yellows, violets, even hot pink sometimes. It's part of my look, which I've spent years sculpting and which is constantly in metamorphosis as I do believe it is a (posted to Makeup is Anti-feminist?)
"I think you have a persecution complex or something." Um, gee, thanks? "the ad uses sex to sell." Yup, women's sex. (but i'm repeating myself here). "There is no "patriarchal system"" So I guess there's no such thing as feminism (posted to More offensive advertising for Burger King)
@ bukowski David Reimer's parents *forced* him to be a specific kind girl and were always policing his gender. They wouldn't even let Reimer as a girl wear pants--how many parents do that? The kid (as a girl) came up (posted to Is it possible to raise a child outside the gender binary?)
I'm not arguing for the terminology in dealing with people in everyday life. It's just that the way you described it intersex was more accurate, and you indicated that people who fit the literal definition of a hermaphrodite didn't exist. (posted to Is it possible to raise a child outside the gender binary?)
Kind of like when a woman is raped, her clothing choices are dissected with no recognition of the fact that you can be in a burqa and be raped...you can be in your own home with the doors locked and (posted to Dear Assholes:)
k so the feminist philosophy- woman have been molded by society ex: they put baby boys is blue and baby girls in pink. k, i agree to an extent. however aren't we (if you believe in evolution) related to others (posted to Woman's Sexuality)
