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September 01, 2012
fuckyeahsexeducation: retrogradewaters: nextmorgothidol: metapianycist: [A complicated Venn diagram depicting multiple overlapping categories of features regarded as constituting “biological sex,” meant to illustrate that sex is not nearly as binary as many people like to think.] #holy shit this appeared in my dash and I thought it was modern art but no it’s freaking sex! YES For everyone who thinks sex is only about “vaginas” and “penises” (especially those who use it against trans* and intersex folk)

fuckyeahsexeducation:

retrogradewaters:

nextmorgothidol:

metapianycist:

[A complicated Venn diagram depicting multiple overlapping categories of features regarded as constituting “biological sex,” meant to illustrate that sex is not nearly as binary as many people like to think.]

#holy shit this appeared in my dash and I thought it was modern art but no it’s freaking sex!

YES

For everyone who thinks sex is only about “vaginas” and “penises” (especially those who use it against trans* and intersex folk)

(Source: rabidcentipede, via opendooropen-deactivated2012102)

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May 03, 2012
“I am not generally in favor of the arguments that posit that “all things feminine” (like wearing lipstick, high heels or shaving one’s legs) are inherently oppressive—that is a debate that has been going on between 2nd and 3rd wave feminists since well before me and one I don’t feel need to get into here. I believe that there is a subtle, internalized misogyny at play when feminists themselves get going on a circle-jerk of “pink-bashing” and begin to measure “feminist enough” by the extremes to which a woman refuses to perform “femininity.” I would also like to take it as a given, that one cannot care about gender equality and not notice the ways in which female bodies are policed, and how present-day idealized femininity is often painful, time-consuming, and costly to reproduce. Not to mention physically unhealthy.”

— Make-up as Play, Make-up as Performance, Make-up as Oppression — By  over at Geeking Sexuality

(Source: geekingsexuality)

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April 09, 2012
prettyhandsomemangina: melancholywise: A new Swedish toy catalogue has reversed the traditional gender roles by showing Spiderman pushing a pram, and a young girl riding a toy racecar. Kaj Wiberg is the CEO of the company behind the catalogue, “Leklust”, and claims that it is time to move forward from old-fashioned gender restrictions.“Gender roles are an outdated thing,” he told Metro newspaper. I thought you guys might like this. Rest of the story can be found here. Fixed the link. Sorry about that! I am very ok with this.

prettyhandsomemangina:

melancholywise:

A new Swedish toy catalogue has reversed the traditional gender roles by showing Spiderman pushing a pram, and a young girl riding a toy racecar.

Kaj Wiberg is the CEO of the company behind the catalogue, “Leklust”, and claims that it is time to move forward from old-fashioned gender restrictions.

“Gender roles are an outdated thing,” he told Metro newspaper.

I thought you guys might like this.

Rest of the story can be found here.

Fixed the link. Sorry about that!

I am very ok with this.

(via thricexbetelgeuse)

Chat
March 26, 2012
  • Me: She identifies as a girl. So she's a girl.
  • Friend: But she's really a
  • Me: No stop
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March 26, 2012

Up too late tumblring gender id stuff.

It is interesting and sometimes heartbreaking to see trans* (even that term should be heavily footnoted and addressed in a separate appendix) individuals trying to assert their gender in a large world that questions the authenticity and even the existence of their identities, and a smaller, and in theory more friendly, world that some see as threatening because it plays with gender representation and performance without the burden of having to assume a trans* identity. 

I don’t have a punchline or an epigram— it’s hard stuff. I usually come down on the side of more play is better than less play, and self definition is one of the most powerful things we can do as individuals. However, what the public at large thinks being trans gendered means is influenced by a lot of cis* individuals, and I can see how that could be frustrating.