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…depicting a woman’s legs, bare and clad though they may be in shorts of the verging-on-Daisy-Dukes variety, is simply not inherently sexist. Indeed, to suggest that it’s so is also to suggest that women, aesthetically, are inherently sexualized.
Rachel Maddow Discusses Stupak Amendment On Meet The Press - Jezebel
I love Rachel Maddow, but I’m not sure what a politically effective women’s revolt over abortion coverage would look like.
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See Wikipedia’s List of wartime crossdressers for more interesting stories.
Frances Louisa Clayton, née Clalin: Woman who disguised herself as a man and fought in the Civil War, found out only after being wounded. Apparently she could spit, swear and drink as well as any other soldier. More. Via VintagePhoto and wurzeltod.
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The persistence of intersex reminds me that there’s a continuum, that we isolate people in the middle and say they have a problem because they’re reproductively incompetent or don’t look right or whatever. None of us meet the criterion of being the perfect male or the perfect female. We are all intersex.
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Semantics, Gender, and 'Cis'
Speaker for the Diodes knocks it out of the park with a thorough, intelligent explanation.I’m linking this because I think it’s interesting and I think y’all might think it’s interesting. However, I don’t agree with the author’s thesis: that “cis” is a useful term because it’s a non-othering label. This whole concept makes me uncomfortable because it strikes me as strongly reinforcing and endorsing the idea that labeling gender identities - especially those based on a male/female dichotomy - is worthwhile. When you use the term “cis-woman,” you are invoking, and thereby supporting, traditional or conventional ideas about woman-ness. That feels like a patriarchy-win to me. In contrast, when you use the term “woman,” it’s a much more ambiguous term. At least in my language community, it’s a word that encompasses a diversity of expressions of gender identity. Of course, it’s not a perfect word when used as a label - but that is a problem inherent to using words as labels, a practice which I think should be discouraged.
