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I finally managed to update one of my kinkmeme WIPs, but feeling so guilty about the other one. (I don't care if only 5 people are reading them, damn it, I've been one of 4 or 5 people who's following a WIP and it mattered to me, so.)
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Omg, I need to add this to my rant about how women on tv are either huge whores or frigid bitches who are appalled that their partner may actually want to have sex with them. Yeah, not everyone wants a baby either!
I'm writing something that only one other person is reading and it matters to me that I know that at someone else out there is following the crack.
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Yes, I'm very over the creepy "slut shaming" and good wife/sexless career woman complex. And we really need to be done with the idea that biggest goal in a woman's life is procreation. Some people are really into that, and that's great for them, but it is not the source of all fulfillment and joy for a lot of woman these days.
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And yeah, Oregon is pretty good for lesbians. ;)
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I guess I'm just an entitled whiner, but it frustrates me that when I finally get to see some lesbians on tv it seems like they're always focused on getting/raising kids. (or they're nominally lesbians but aren't actively shown having romantic and sexual relationships with other women.) Even my adorable teenage lesbian show "South of Nowhere" ended with a web-series coda that took them like 10 years in the future to show that they're still happily together and HAVE A BABY. Because apparently having babies is the center of everything. *sigh*
And yeah, Oregon is pretty good for lesbians. ;)
*cries* It is no fair! I tried to move there 2 years ago but couldn't get hired anywhere. alas! I am a failure. Well, at least the my general un-hireableness got me to finally go back to get a Masters. ;)
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it may be full of awesome gay ladies, but everyone in Multnomah county was too smart to hire me. BASTARDS. Somedaaaaaay, someday I will successfully move to OR and drink EVEN MORE COFFEE. (ok, there or San Diego) ;)
Life in Republicanville is no fun. lol, during the Prop 8 election like every house in my city had anti-gay marriage signs on their front lawns.
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That reminds me that there's a lot of queer studies geared towards looking at the trappings of mainstream-acceptable queerness (and raising babies seems to be within that framework which is why it seems tv just looooooves this--the whole see? they're just like YOU, heterosexuals).
Off the top of my head Edelman's No Future, I hear, is solidly against this cult of the child. Lisa Duggan (who looks at the rise of this as it relates to neoliberalism) and Jasbir Puar (who looks at the underside of the mainstream queer i.e. the queers of color who are cast out) come to mind (Jack Halberstam probably has done some work here too, I think). Anyway, I find this stat really interesting in light of these academic discussions. I'm surprised Oregon is not #1!
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By the way, my brother has selected the representation of woman in television as an undergrad paper topic but now he's having some issue finding good sources. I don't suppose you have any recs off the top of your head for articles/authors he could pursue that are academic journal based? Everything he knows about feminist critique he learned from fandom. ;) (I had to explain to him that no, really, no matter how much he searched he wasn't going to find peer reviewed articles about The Bechdel Test. Sadly, my academic background mostly concerns project management and human-centered computing, so I'm of little help.)
I'm surprised Oregon is not #1!Multnomah is #4 in counties, at least ( ... )
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