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sexualkugel

Blog Against Sexism!!

Mar 09, 2007 02:02

I should be going to sleep right now since I promised to help with the postering blitz at 7.45 AM, but apparently I love to play on the internets when I should be sleeping and love to sleep when I should be working. no, I don't work when I could be playing on the internets, but that's a whole 'nother story ( Read more... )

sexism, feminism, international women's day

Comments 7

onewithbriteyes March 9 2007, 13:16:36 UTC

i've got a conclusion to the rant:

Fuck the patriarchy.

sexualkugel March 9 2007, 17:24:43 UTC

touche, dear friend. touche.

bloodlustwitch March 9 2007, 15:45:21 UTC

t is also about the more pervasive and insidious forms of sexism that we are so easily able to ignore. It is even more not just about confronting rapists or Bush or those "other" countries that don't give their women rights; it's about confronting ourselves, no matter how liberal, progressive, pro-women/gender equality, politically correct we are.

Agreed. Very frequently people let themselves slide b/c they don't realize how much work we still have to do on themselves as more open-minded and accepting people. We are constantly on the way to improving ourselves and making us better people.

sexualkugel March 9 2007, 17:26:00 UTC

precisely.
And that's ok- obviously no one can be perfect or immune to these issues; the problem is not that people are still working on themselves, but rather that some refuse to acknowledge that they need to!

It's comforting to know that I'm not the only one who sees this.

frustratedideal March 10 2007, 07:19:40 UTC

You aren't the only person to see this at all, either in him or others.

People are uncomfortable acknowledging it or examining it because they don't WANT to be sexist, and they are intellectually against it.

I agree with you entirely.

sexualkugel March 10 2007, 22:42:21 UTC

I'm not that surprised that you agree, but I'm glad you do.
;-)

xo

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sexualkugel March 10 2007, 22:41:47 UTC

that's pretty much right, but it's not just that heterosexuality is "right" so much as you automatically assume it as a default (in addition to normative gender expression). more importantly, this isn't simply a personal thing, wherein one individual assumes someone they meet is straight, so much as an institutionalized structure that governs all of our interactions.

and since this isn't a scholarly response, I can point you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronormativity
it has a fairly good overview.