[Meta] .... I think I'm going to be sick now.

[tomboy_typist]

Warning, this is extremely squicky and trigerry.

There's a thread over at ontd_feminism  which fruhlings  and ascenseur  have signal-boosted on their journals.

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[tomboy_typist]

I have no idea - but I think we should all give this as big a signal boost as we can. Actually. Maybe I should go against my own principles and make this thing public for once.

Or something.

Just. AUGH.

[tomboy_typist]

Yeah, seriously. SERIOUSLY. Augh. See my comment below to Lise. It's just wrong on SO. MANY. LEVELS. AUGH.

[sparkythegeek]

Holy crap! That's awful! (Think the parents may have just a shade of sadism to them like the doc???)

And to go from that to James Joyce... oh, my condolences! :o

[tomboy_typist]

Minimally a shade of willful blindness, if you ask me. What I want to know is what sort of compensation they were getting for their kids' participation to the dubious study.

And yea. Not to mention the criticism, which is actually a thicker book than Ulysses. And I can't focus on it, tbh.

(And yeah. My thoughts are more turning to Joyce as a pervert than Joyce as a gifted novelist, which Doth Not Help the situation. AUGH.)

[ascenseur]

Thanks for linking to the ontd_feminism entry - I'm watching that community but the post volume means I end up missing a lot, and this was one of them. I found out about it from rage_free and that post didn't have any contact info last time I checked. I think I'll definitely be sending a letter or two, uggh.

[tomboy_typist]

You're welcome! And good to know other communities are bringing this up. Sorry for the, er, assumption.

I want to write too - some of the folks over there are sharing their letter models, but I'm not sure exactly what I want to say beyond OMGWTFISTHISFUCKERY, for now, so. Er. Yes.

[minviendha]

What the...fuck. What the fuck.

Who thought that this was - somehow okay?

[tomboy_typist]

Inorite? There is so much wrong with all those assertions, I can't even.

I mean. EVEN if they were correct in believing that women with large clitorises are more inclined to lesbianism, tomboyishness and agressiveness. WHAT IS WRONG WITH BEING ANY OF THOSE THINGS?

AUGH. It's sexist, homophobic, hetero-normative, mysoginistic, sadistic, sick, pedophile and so many more things that just.

AUGH.

I'm pissed off at the parents for allowing this, the dean for accepting the research project, and whoever thought funding this thing was a good idea. Not to mention the physicians involved. AUGH.

[dame_grise]

That sounds disgusting.

And just when I was starting to think I could forgive the human race...

[tomboy_typist]

I think that's what's making it so anger-inducing. It's not really any where close to human.

My spaceship, let me show you it. AUGH.