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| 2008-05-03 22:03 |
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For anyone who is trying to fool themselves that the next generation is inheriting a 'postfeminist' world, read Hell On Hairy Legs' summary of a day in the life of a feminist highschooler.
This is what my schedule looks like on a Thursday:
Maths: 20 white guys in a 25 person class. The results are not pretty.
Chemistry: We learn how humanity has screwed up the environment and how we’re all screwed. In our spiffy extra credit in-depth study we also learn that nobody really cares.
Recess: “Progressive” group makes jokes about gang rape and I start playing bingo.
History: Women are a paragraph in every chapter or a chapter in every book.
French: Every noun is gendered; males take precedence over females in groups. There is no equivalent of Ms.
Lunch: Random White Guy “I don’t know why you feminists are so angry.”
English: Books written by white guys about white guys.
Then I have a 50/50 chance of being yelled and/ or honked at while I walk home. ’Tis delightful.
Here is the Hollaback Australia Website if you want to email photos or stories of harassment. The sidebar has links to other Hollaback websites. ~~~ " Woke Up Disabled": vassilissa talks about the "Woke Up Female" genre of genderswap fanfic, and wonders what a "Woke Up Disabled" genre might look like. Excerpt: Well, today I realised that there's another genre waiting(?) to be written: Woke Up Disabled. And unlike Woke Up Female or Woke Up Black (Woke Up Gay is debatable) this one could actually happen. To anyone reading this.
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And I can just see the fanfic now. It wouldn't be played for wacky hijinks like Woke Up Female and Woke Up Gay often are. It would be played for angst and hurt/comfort. Emphatically, it would *not* lead to the suddenly-disabled person finding (as the suddenly-female characters sometimes do) that the strangest and/or most frustrating part of his situation is how differently people treat him.
But that *is* the experience of a lot of disabled people. That it's like being female, or being black, in this society: a huge part of the suck is that society caters best for an ideal that does not include you, and is indifferent or actively hostile to your needs. [h/t to baroquestar]~~~ Twisty uncovers this invaluable daily-living hint from a Bra Fitting Advice page's "FAQs About Panties": What is the proper way to put on a panty?
Well, for starters, try one leg at a time, no matter how famous or important you are. Step both legs into your panty, then pull it up until the waistband is at the desired location. Check and make sure your crotch is centered and pulled forward. Now, starting at the sides, run your fingers along and under the elastic of the leg openings towards the back to make sure the back panel is properly cupping your buttocks. Finally, run your fingers around the inside of the waistband to set it evenly at the waist. Have you, too, been doing it wrong all this time? So much wrong with this FAQ, it really deserves a post of its own. Who knew that a lacy bra was an effective treatment for depression in women? That women wear "pantliners" (WTF?) to eliminate Visible Panty Line when they don't like G-strings? That your breasts "should" sit midway between your waist and your clavicles? Get out those tape measures! To their " I want control but don't want a girdle. What are my options?", I say: Keep fighting the good feminist fight, women. We'll get there one day.
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"Check and make sure your crotch is centered and pulled forward."
Ow. I don't know about yours, but my crotch pretty much stays where it is, no matter how I pull.
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lauredhel |
| 2008-05-03 15:22 (UTC) |
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I know, right? I mean, sure, the occasional bit of slight arrangement, but centring and pulling-forward sure ain't it. Yowch.
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| cupidsbow |
| 2008-05-03 14:29 (UTC) |
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Actually there are a few "woke up disabled" fics out there, and the protagonists are sometimes othered, although yes, h/c is the main theme. However, there is often (but not always) a magic fix at the end of the story too.
*goes off to read feminist diary*
PS--I'm working on your rec set. You picked fandoms that are only minor for me, so I'm trying to get some well-known fics in them as well as a few that have transcended fandom boundaries.
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| lauredhel |
| 2008-05-03 15:26 (UTC) |
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Cool, if you stumble across any WUD fics, I'd quite like to read them. (Don't go out of your way, though.)
I may well be familiar with other fandoms, so feel free to add whatever's there. I didn't really include any classic shows or movies (LOTR, etc), but we should have a bit of crossover there. Sorry, no Stargate, though. Going back and watching it from the beginning is on my List, but I haven't got there yet.
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| moonborn |
| 2008-05-03 22:04 (UTC) |
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Does ANYONE outside the adult industry refer to knickers/underwear as "panties"? That word gives a totally knee-jerk, visceral reaction. It makes my skin crawl.
And gee, I didn't realise I had to "cup" my buttocks when putting underwear on. Do I get a free pass since I refuse to call anything I wear "panties" or have I still been doing it wrong these past 27 years?
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| badylugz |
| 2008-05-03 23:46 (UTC) |
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I have never thought in depth about how I put undies on, and now my brane is broken from reading about it.
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| purrdence |
| 2008-05-04 01:41 (UTC) |
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Most of the people/ authors I know that use the word 'panties' are American.
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| purrdence |
| 2008-05-04 01:56 (UTC) |
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Trying to be a feminist teacher isn't much easier, if not harder - I would put money on that one of the reasons why I have behaviour management problems with some of the male students is because of their total lack of respect for women and they don't like having a woman in a position of power over them. So they have to be horrible little shits to 'take her down a couple of pegs' and make themselves feel better.
From a foreign language teaching perspective, the whole 'gendered language' is a tricky thing. You can't ignore it, especially when it is quite entrenched in the language, but you can't change it completely either, especially when you're only a speaker of that language, not a member of that culture. (On a side note, there is no separate Ms per say in Japanese, but there is no separate Mr or Mrs either - it's all the same title)
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| lauredhel |
| 2008-05-07 14:56 (UTC) |
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Thanks for your thoughts on that. I agree - some schools seem to be environments where these sorts of sexist structures get intensified, for people at all different levels. It must be tough to be stuck in that.
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