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Sorry, Bob. I'm not buying it. I call horseshit. If Nick where to, say, call me his "princess kitty hobag" in public should all Femmes everywhere have some sort of an outcry because they were oppressed by proxy? Fuck that.
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A masculine appearing WOMAN (however she may identify and whatever her and her partner may share between them) is being reduced to a short man with boobs.
Just who is policing identities? Now people are saying short man with boobs is an identity.
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Random - it's really frustrating for you to claim you understand what I'm saying when you obviously think that I am just not being accepting of diverse identities. That is not what my issue is at all.
Assumptions are made routinely that masculine women are "male." Butch women are assumed to be male identified, even when they are not. These assumptions are so woven into the fabric of our community that they go un-noticed. I used Nixon's comment to make that point. I won't argue with you further because we are talking about apples and oranges Heart |
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And who said these people belonged to a community? Did they say they did, or are we forcing them to be in a 'community'? And to which community do they belong? Since when does what the 'community' label you supercede how you identify yourself? And since when did making an individual the representative spokesperson for ALL in the community become vogue again? I thought privilege 101 stated very clearly that's not how things work. This Cynthia character represents nada about my life, so why is she a spokesperson for my 'community'? Why is she a representative held to some high high standard? If we don't want straight people to make us all 'representatives' and 'ambassadors', we can't apply that ourselves when it's 'convenient'. Dylan |
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And maybe "short man with boobs" IS the identity of someone, somewhere. I wasn't being tongue in cheek when I said that I self-identify as "A fat Drew Barrymore". I fucking DO, okay? Because it's the closest thing that I can think of to what/who I actually am. Why are you personalizing what someone else may or may not be referred to as?
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But *is* she a woman? Are we assuming she is a woman because she has breasts and a vagina? Have we *seen* her breasts and vagina? Do we know whether or not she is right now, at this very minute, sitting in a Dr's office filling our her paperwork for SRS? Do we know that she isnt on testosterone? Now, let me be clear that Im not "defaulting to the male experience" here by wondering aloud these questions, just being curious though how the proverbial "we" perceive a person's gender as opposed to how "they" perceive it. Good discussion.
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This argument always reminds me of when you couldn't be butch or femme without taking MASSIVE amount of flack from the lesbian community..How as femmes we are letting down the womans movement because we are giving in to the patriarcal idea of what a woman should look like...
I belive that that at times, what is best for the *community* what you *should be or say to properly represent your *people* is not what works for you as a person...
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I am not the one speculating how she identifies.
This is way beyond frustrating for me. Good day.
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Now. If her partner was, in fact, a man and/or if she came out as a transman tomorrow, the interesting thing is that I think we'd hear a whole lot of hulabaloo about how transphobic Nixon's comment was. Would any of us refer to Chaz Bono or any of our FtM brethern as "men with boobs?" It would be considered highly disrespectful. And that's my other point: the privileging of men/male identity over women/female identity. Heart |
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For me we are not talking apple and oranges... we are talking different sides of the coins... Yes, there are assumptions that masculine women are male... There are assumptions that masculine women are gay.. (I live in NE.. every time I go out to one of the small towns, farm wifes set off my butchar all the time..) I'm just pointing out that while there are masuline women who id as women, there are also masculine women who id as male... One should never be above the other... We can't automaticly assume that one is anything.. unless they say what they are...
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I fail to see how demeaning one group of people empowers another who may share (for the sake of convenience) the same 'label'. Such as 'butch', for example. Butch has come to encompass such a wide variety of personas, presentations, and gender identities that it's almost become meaningless in any real sense. Regardless of whether you're male-id'ed or female-id'ed, language that implies that women who are masculine are somehow less than is wrong. Or to use a slightly more inflammatory example, most people would probably agree that regardless of its use among certain musical genres and subcommunities, it's not okay to use the the N word. We recognize that as word that is fundamentally and in and of itself meant only to harm. I fear that misogyny, unlike racism (random teabaggers aside) is so ingrained in people that they don't recognize it when they see it. It's not about policing others' identities, it's about policing ourselves. |
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Just the same as tall woman with dick could be an identity...
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Ah, see, now we're talking! See, when I read that she is describing her masculine female partner as a man, I first wondered if she was just trying to get people who dont have the language that we have to understand. Thinking futher though, I wondered if she was describing her masculine female partner that way because she knows something that we dont know (the whole hypothesis about how her partner may or may not self-identify her gender). I do definitely agree that there is privileging in the identity of men/male over the woman/female...until there isnt. For the most part, this exists on a grand scale throughout just about every corner of society, but then I think of Femme privilege in context with my Butch partner experiencing homophobia and Im able to see cracks in my (once-solid) little gender vase.
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If someone referred to their partner as well he's basically a tall woman with a dick this conversation would be far different.
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I haven't lived your experience as a butch.. So I haven't had your experiences.. But for me... I would just as strongly support someones right to be a tall woman with a dick as I do a short man with boobs... Now someone other that the person or the persons partner labling anyone either one would meet with resistance.. Random.. Who's partner IS occassionaly a tall woman with a dick...
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Edit: as far as I know no one here knows Cynthia Nixon's partner personally.
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Jesus Christ. This discussion was not intended to be about whether someone can call themselves a short man with boobs or a tall woman with dick. How does it get reduced down to: "Anyone can call themselves whatever they want?" If that's the discussion you want to have - go ahead.
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I think Im getting stuck on the intimacy.
I asked myself how I would feel if the person making this comment was a random stranger on the street. I'd be pissed. The fact that it is her partner making this comment makes me feel as if there is intimate knowledge and intimate boundaries between them that I dont have a right to impose upon. Where is the line? Is there an intersection between fighting for the visibility of masculine women by calling out comments such as these and taking comments such as these as intimate words to and about people who are partnered no matter their gender? ..
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