Nerd is my Gender
What's yours?
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Do it!
If you’ve got binarism you want to take down/to see taken down publicly, http://stfubinarists.tumblr.com/submit.
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I’m so tired of hairstylists trying to enforce the gender binary; I always leave salons feeling like a gender felon.
genderfork (via pansexualpride)
Wow, so it’s not just me. I’ve resorted to having friends do my hair, after getting tired of saying “yes, I’m sure I want it that short, that’s what I got last time”, only to have the stylist ask me again 5 minutes later.
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Anti-Trans Discrimination
What she said:
NCTE and The Task Force released the findings of an extensive survey on the kinds of discrimination faced by trans people in the US. It’s not good news, and anyone who is surprised that it’s not good news hasn’t been paying attention.
Said Mara Keisling, Executive Director of NCTE: “Reading these results is heartbreaking on a personal level—each of these facts and figures represents pain and hardship endured by real people, every single day. This survey is a call to the conscience of every American who believes that everyone has the right to a fair chance to work hard, to have a roof overhead, and to support a family. Equality, not discrimination, is the ideal that Americans believe in, have fought for, and need to apply here.”
You can read the Executive Summary, or the entire survey.
We need a gender-inclusive ENDA.
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You Know You’re Trans* When: #233
You fear “that conversation” when you’re dating someone who doesn’t know you’re trans, because you fear you’ll lose them because of it.
This is kind of a litmus test for who is worth my time and love and who isn’t.
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Look at the low masculinity & femininity scores on this thing!
Bencakes says: so yeah, “nerd” is your gender, as in you focus on intellectually meaningful choices
(Click image above for link to full report.)
(Source: personaldna.com)
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My tactic: go with a friend, then people assume you belong.
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Do not call me cisgender. You have no right or authority to name me without my consent.
Cisgender is a word used by persons who have decided to name me without my permission.
Cisgender is not a name or identity that females, women as a class, have chosen for ourselves.
It does not come from us, as its origins are from a trans perspective, a person said to be a man, created by trans persons and used to name females/women as a class. Women have not agreed to be named by others, as has been done to us through history, being named, identified and defined by others.
You do not get to name me without my permission.
Do not call me cisgender. That is offensive to me. I am offended that you consider that you have power over me, and can name me.
Cisgender is an epithet, abusive, contemptuous and expresses hostility towards me.
I name myself. The names and words I use include female, woman, her, she, wimmin, womon, womyn. You have permission to use those words when addressing or referring to me.
You do not have the permission to call me names you have created for me, against my will and demand that I own them as mine.
Do not call me cisgender. That is your word, not mine.
Uppity Biscuit http://uppitybiscuit.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/do-not-call-me-cisgender-you-do-not-have-my-permission-to-name-me/ (via thefeministhermit)
Oh, so you’re trans*? Because you’re either cis or trans. You’re either the same gender that was assigned to you at birth or you’re not. I’m not going to tell you for you which you are, but you can’t act like one is superior to the other, or that one is degrading or the other egotistic. And you most certainly can’t act like “woman” and “cis” or “woman” and “trans” are mutually exclusive pairings. You want to see the end of cis/trans? End the practice of gender assignment at birth. Stop raising little kids to be girls and boys based on how they look. But you won’t do that, will you?
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Pretty good gender umbrella, though I would point out that not all people in some of these categories even consider themselves to be trans*.
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Anonymous asked: Do you have a penis or a vagina?
Answer: Depends on my agenda for the day.
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Passing as GQ
I think I would put more effort into looking gender neutral if I thought I could pass.
Is such a thing possible? If so, I want a makeover!
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The Atheist "Challenge"
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At what point did you know you were an atheist? Why did you become one, what were the factors leading up to the decision, if you weren’t always one?
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I wasn't always an atheist. I studied the Bible a lot. The more I did, the more I realized it was giving its God a bad reputation. After looking around, I realized that either God's a real jerk, isn't involved in human affairs, or doesn't exist. Either way, my participation is not required.
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What religion did you grow up with? Did you have positive or negative experiences with religion?
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I've had mostly positive experiences with religion personally. Apart from the bits where Christians use the Bible to claim that they're not being hateful, they're just the messengers. I'm sure they really believe that, too, sad to say. But other than that, yeah, my childhood was full of Christians who had a personal code of conduct based in love and caring.
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Are you a more outspoken or more apathetic atheist? Why?
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I'm outspoken about atheism because I'm outspoken about everything about myself.
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Do you think religion is obsolete and should be wiped completely off the face of the Earth, or does some good come out of it?
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I object to the wording of this question. Are we really going to have a cleansing? The world has enough warfare as it is. But honestly, I see a future where religion simply fades into the background as we need it less and less.
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Did you lose any friends because you decided to be an atheist? Did your family flip out?
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Probably, and yes. They believe there is a hell. An oppressive belief if there ever was one.
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How do you feel about so-called “militant atheists” such as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris?
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I laugh. And then ignore them. Wankers.
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Except for God, do you believe in anything supernatural or pseudoscientific? (Ghosts, alien abductions, spirits, souls, demons, psychics, magic, Harry Potter, etc.)
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Hey, Harry Potter is REAL! But, um, if things are real, I don't even need to believe in them, so it doesn't matter either way.
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What’s your political alignment? Does your atheism influence how you vote and how you feel on issues?
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I vote anti-evil. Read into that what you will.
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Even though you’re an atheist, have you ever experienced a moment that could be called “religious?” Like an epiphany about the world or complete peace?
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No.
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Are you spiritual, or are your feet always on the ground?
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Are those the only options? Seriously?
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Do you have/plan on having a career in the sciences? Alternatively: which branch of science intrigues you most?
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I'd love to do science, but I like having a personal life more. I really enjoy physics and psychology, and the rest is rather cool too.
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What happens when we die? Do you fear death?
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Nothing happens. Woohoo! I'm not afraid of death, though I don't like experiencing pain in any form, and I imagine dying probably hurts. Also, it would be really rude to everyone who's still alive that I owe money (though it's not like they could chase me down with torches and pitchforks into the nonexistent afterlife).
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Would you ever date/marry somebody who follows a religion? Be honest.
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Probably. As long as they don't believe that hell exists.
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On a scale of 1-10, how happy are you with life at this moment, and why?
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RIGHT now, I'm a little hungry, but I just finished my schoolwork for the week, and I get to go hang out with Bencakes' family, so that's cool. This also sums up my feelings about the rest of my life, coincidently.
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Recommend a book. :) (Doesn’t have to be relevant to atheism, just any good book.)
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The Gods Themselves, by Isaac Asimov. This actually has nothing to do with religion or atheism (contrary to what the book title sounds like). The second of three sections in the book is deeply touching to my life. It's all about an alternate universe where there is a race of beings which have three sexes (all three required for reproduction). The main character is physically in the form of the "emotional" sex, but she feels like she should actually be of the "rational" gender. Her struggle of coming to terms with her transgender identity really resonates with my personal struggle.
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Trans*-on-Trans* Discrimination
Sigh… When are we going to learn that we’re not each other’s enemies? It’s the people out there who want to force us into a genital-defined social role who hate us, not each other.
transgirljournal makes a list of people she wants to inflict physical violence upon:
- The ones that complain constantly about people giving them male pronouns when they don’t even try to present semi-feme sometimes.
Weird, I know plenty of men who can throw on a cute skirt and still be called by male pronouns. Not to mention men who can avoid femininity as hard as they try and still not hear one male pronoun all day long. Presenting as femme/butch/whatever isn’t the magic button for receiving non-male pronouns, it seems.
- The ones that don’t even try.
How do you know if they’re trying? Are you living their lives? Maybe she’s leapt over 500 obstacles that week already, and she simply doesn’t have the strength for Obstacle #501.
- The ones who complain about transphobia when all their life involves is looking for transphobia.
Have you looked around you? Do you listen to what people say? The only way to avoid the constant transphobia is to plug your ears, cover your eyes, wear gloves (if your read braille), and hide in a closet. Speaking of closet, that’s where you’ll find the only trans* people who don’t complain about transphobia, because it’s too dangerous for them to. They need the rest of us to speak up against hate for them when they can’t.
- The ones who WANT transphobia and people to call them “trannies” just so they can make a scene.
Gasp! Not a scene! WE WOULDN’T WANT THAT! Then bigots who hate and abuse trans* people might get the wrong idea about how we really feel. They might even stop oppressing us, and then we wouldn’t get to make scenes any more, and that would be sad. /sarcasm
In summary: get over yourself.
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Aww, they’re so cute! And they’re making it better. Awesomeness.
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What is feminism according to you?
If Feminism is for equal rights, then why call yourself feminist? Be a humanist. Don't just care for your group's rights, care for everyone's rights.Asked by anticapitalist
DEAR GOD WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE HUMANISTS!
…oh wait, I am a humanist. And though I’m a feminist, I’m not a woman, so it’s not “my group”.
Educate your damn self.
Genderqueer with a touch of happy humanism.
