|
05-26-2010, 06:39 PM | #1 |
Member
How Do You Identify?:
Stonefemme lesbian Preferred Pronoun?:
I'm a woman. Behave accordingly. Relationship Status:
Single, not looking. Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: NYC
Posts: 1,467
Thanks: 9,474
Thanked 7,151 Times in 1,206 Posts
Rep Power: 21474852 |
I'm trying to follow your logic, but I can't get past the title. There is no place on earth, or in cyberspace, that could be misconstrued as 'post gender'.
I hope I'm not insulting anyone here, but I have no doubt that academics who believe they've facilitated/created/willed into being a 'post gender world' are deluded. There is no place, no language, no circumstance that is not utterly suffused with gender, and assumptions, judgments and injustices based on same. I'm sure it's interesting to some academics to theorize about some sort of idealised world that is fully populated by people with slippery ambiguous genders defined only by themselves, and where those genders can be as changeable as the phases of the moon. That world exists in the minds of people who have been having fun making it up, kind of like a video game. If anyone would like to remember what it means to work in the real world with men who have NO gender ambiguity WHATSOEVER, I invite you to visit me in the scene shop. OK. It's safe to come back out, now. The grouchy old curmudgeon has retired for a nap.
__________________
Cheryl Last edited by CherylNYC; 05-26-2010 at 06:40 PM. Reason: sp |
05-26-2010, 07:19 PM | #2 |
Member
How Do You Identify?:
Femme Relationship Status:
rainbows! Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: NY
Posts: 466
Thanks: 303
Thanked 2,531 Times in 412 Posts
Rep Power: 12032609 |
Cheryl -- I'm not a proponent of the term post-gender, as I said above. I just used the term to frame this discussion in this thread. In this little online world we do a lot of what might be considered gender deconstruction. That's what made me think of "post gender." I'm not an academic - so maybe I misused the phrase. Anyway, post-gender is not the important part. Exploring identifying as/with (or not) "woman" is the important part.
Last edited by Heart; 05-26-2010 at 07:23 PM. |
The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Heart For This Useful Post: |
05-26-2010, 08:04 PM | #3 |
Timed Out
How Do You Identify?:
Permanently Banned 10/24/2010 Preferred Pronoun?:
She. Relationship Status:
Married (one of 18,000) Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Atascadero, CA
Posts: 4,933
Thanks: 2,309
Thanked 7,109 Times in 2,327 Posts
Rep Power: 0 |
I'm interested in hearing your responses to the OP Heart.
|
|
|