in other news, i am taking g101 (kill. me. now.) and everything we have read so far seems to think it is okay to tokenize intersex people in order to make a point about ~gender~. Which (a) WTF, and (b) more WTF.
some gems from the main textbook (What is Gender: Sociological Approaches, by Mary Holmes, copyright two thousand fucking seven):
"Intersexuality puts the categories 'male' and 'female' into question and shows how for granted we take it that females will become feminine and males masculine, and all will perform the social tasks expected. Intersexual people show that bodies are important in forming gender identity and that having an ambiguous body makes forming a gender identity complex, but only because of entrenched common sense ideas that if you have a female body you must become feminine and if you have a male body you should become masculine. The assumption is that gender identity simply emerges from sex. For those whose bodies to not clearly fit either sex category, gender identity is a problem."
and
"Some men with penises feel like women trapped in men's bodies"
and SO MANY OTHER SHITTY THINGS.
I talked to the professor after class and was like, do you actually like this book, because I thought it was extremely problematic and she was basically like, "I guess you're right but oh well," which, what? Why are we reading this shit?
also dear god i don't expect non-binary genders to be recognized elsewhere but this is a fucking gender studies class so can we please do that please?
anyway i guess just, you are probably reading better things than i am right now.
also, how do you differentiate between academic and non-academic feminism?
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Re: an important clarification
Date: 2011-01-18 02:03 am (UTC)in other news, i am taking g101 (kill. me. now.) and everything we have read so far seems to think it is okay to tokenize intersex people in order to make a point about ~gender~. Which (a) WTF, and (b) more WTF.
some gems from the main textbook (What is Gender: Sociological Approaches, by Mary Holmes, copyright two thousand fucking seven):
"Intersexuality puts the categories 'male' and 'female' into question and shows how for granted we take it that females will become feminine and males masculine, and all will perform the social tasks expected. Intersexual people show that bodies are important in forming gender identity and that having an ambiguous body makes forming a gender identity complex, but only because of entrenched common sense ideas that if you have a female body you must become feminine and if you have a male body you should become masculine. The assumption is that gender identity simply emerges from sex. For those whose bodies to not clearly fit either sex category, gender identity is a problem."
and
"Some men with penises feel like women trapped in men's bodies"
and SO MANY OTHER SHITTY THINGS.
I talked to the professor after class and was like, do you actually like this book, because I thought it was extremely problematic and she was basically like, "I guess you're right but oh well," which, what? Why are we reading this shit?
also dear god i don't expect non-binary genders to be recognized elsewhere but this is a fucking gender studies class so can we please do that please?
anyway i guess just, you are probably reading better things than i am right now.
also, how do you differentiate between academic and non-academic feminism?