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finch's Driver Gloves tonight, weaving in the ends and attaching the D-rings. I also wove the ends in on the Seafoam Shawl; I'll be taking it up to Fantasia tomorrow to see if the psychic who accosted me still wants it now that it's finished.
We went to a couple of thrift stores today. This particular chain has 50% off sales on the holidays.finch scored a gorgeous pair of boots, I picked up a book (Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank; I haven't read it since high school so we'll see how it holds up) and several sweaters to unravel for yarn. Then I spent a couple of hours snipping threads on the living-room floor and making black-and-white yarn balls. I'm learning a lot about sweater construction, which should help when I actually start to make a sweater. I'm thinking about making a pink dinosaur hoodie for my dinosaur-loving niece, because how awesome would that be? It has spikes up the hood and down the back and it may be the cutest thing ever.
Spent the first couple of hours of my shift tonight finishing my objects, then I started working on my homework.t
I'm taking a seminar this semester called Research on Women and Crime, which started out a profoundly upsetting class, just in general. We started out on domestic violence (which, yeah) and then moved on to abortion and prostitution. (The prostitution class was held debate-style, in which emotions ran very high, and one particularly vocal member of the anti-prostitution group hasn't come back to class at all.) We've also read about drug crimes, juvenile justice, women in prison, and women leaving prison. (We're going out to tour the women's prison later this month.) So the last few weeks, while anger-making, haven't been nearly as personal as the first few.
So the articles I'm reading for Monday's class are on transgender inmates. I'm reading "'Trapped' in Sing-Sing: Transgendered Prisoners Caught in the Gender Binarism" by Darren Rosenblum. (It's a 75 page .pdf file. My eyes, they're bleeding.) Now what I didn't realize when I started reading it was that it was written in 2000. A lot has changed since 2000. But I'm reading the article and screaming at the author for the transfail :
"A 'transgendered person' is both a man who occasionally wears women's clothes as well as a woman, who, through medical and surgical techniques, acquires male features" (508).
The author seems to have a solid grasp of the topic, and then, with a single badly-worded sentence, completely loses it. A crossdresser is not (necessarily) transgendered, any more than my wearing my fiance's jeans and a men's shirt makes me transgendered. "Playing at" being the opposite gender is called "acting." On the other end of the spectrum, the person in the example who has undergone SRS is not a woman, and it is offensive to refer to him as one.
(He refers to SRS candidates as having to "dress as their preferred gender")
And there he goes again! A candidate for SRS must LIVE as their preferred gender, NOT JUST DRESS THAT WAY. You want an explosion in a room full of transgendered people? Bring up restroom use.
("SRS surgery for men includes...")
AND AGAIN. If you are undergoing SRS and receiving a vagina, YOU ARE NOT A MAN. THIS IS NOT SRS FOR MEN. Male-bodied, okay. BUT NOT MEN.
And yet you call transmen "transgendered males?" You're willing to acknowledge that transwomen are women (sort of) but not that transmen are men. WHAT IS THAT EVEN.
("Transgendered males require" to be completely butchered, really. Also one surgery is more attractive but less successful! Also it costs more! That's why those transgendered males don't have the surgery all the time, don't you know. Because of the price tag.)
Also, transmen DO NOT REQUIRE anything. They may CHOOSE to have a phalloplasty. And transmen may not choose to have bottom surgery not because it's more expensive but because it creates "genitalia" that DO NOT WORK. Many transmen would rather have the wrong-but-functioning set, rather than the "right" but nonfunctional set.
Maybe I can get through this article if I mock it mercilessly for you guys.
There he goes calling crossdressers ("crossdressers, and drag kings and queens") transgendered again. There are transgendered crossdressers, and then there are cismen who just like to wear panties, okay? I crossdressed for a solo performance last semester; it did not make me suddenly transgendered.
Once again, Mr. Rosenblum ignores the fact that phalloplasty doesn't create a functional penis, and maybe that's why transmen don't want them (this time he refers to it as "relatively recent" as well as more expensive).
"there is male bias in the perspectives of the researchers."
LIKE YOU, SWEETIE.
"Also, social pressures prevent women from self expression of gender and sexual identity."
More than transwomen? I don't have my statistics handy, but my gut says that's not right. Anybody want to back me up? Considering this article is mostly focusing on the problems transwomen have in jail, I think you may have your perspective a little skewed, honey. Observe how much more acceptable it is for a female-bodied person to wear pants and a men's shirt than a male-bodied person to wear a dress. Note how often heterosexual cismen react with mockery and outright violence to the evidence of femininity in other male-bodied people. Tell me about those social pressures again?
FINALLY he refers to transgendered MEN. Page 14.
I probably should not have the reaction, "Transmen in prison don't have as many problems as transwomen because female inmates are not TOTAL ASSHOLES," but I do.
Okay, my shift is over, so I'm going to post this for now. Page 19 of 74, children. Lord have mercy on my soul.
finch's Driver Gloves tonight, weaving in the ends and attaching the D-rings. I also wove the ends in on the Seafoam Shawl; I'll be taking it up to Fantasia tomorrow to see if the psychic who accosted me still wants it now that it's finished.We went to a couple of thrift stores today. This particular chain has 50% off sales on the holidays.
finch scored a gorgeous pair of boots, I picked up a book (Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank; I haven't read it since high school so we'll see how it holds up) and several sweaters to unravel for yarn. Then I spent a couple of hours snipping threads on the living-room floor and making black-and-white yarn balls. I'm learning a lot about sweater construction, which should help when I actually start to make a sweater. I'm thinking about making a pink dinosaur hoodie for my dinosaur-loving niece, because how awesome would that be? It has spikes up the hood and down the back and it may be the cutest thing ever.Spent the first couple of hours of my shift tonight finishing my objects, then I started working on my homework.t
I'm taking a seminar this semester called Research on Women and Crime, which started out a profoundly upsetting class, just in general. We started out on domestic violence (which, yeah) and then moved on to abortion and prostitution. (The prostitution class was held debate-style, in which emotions ran very high, and one particularly vocal member of the anti-prostitution group hasn't come back to class at all.) We've also read about drug crimes, juvenile justice, women in prison, and women leaving prison. (We're going out to tour the women's prison later this month.) So the last few weeks, while anger-making, haven't been nearly as personal as the first few.
So the articles I'm reading for Monday's class are on transgender inmates. I'm reading "'Trapped' in Sing-Sing: Transgendered Prisoners Caught in the Gender Binarism" by Darren Rosenblum. (It's a 75 page .pdf file. My eyes, they're bleeding.) Now what I didn't realize when I started reading it was that it was written in 2000. A lot has changed since 2000. But I'm reading the article and screaming at the author for the transfail :
"A 'transgendered person' is both a man who occasionally wears women's clothes as well as a woman, who, through medical and surgical techniques, acquires male features" (508).
The author seems to have a solid grasp of the topic, and then, with a single badly-worded sentence, completely loses it. A crossdresser is not (necessarily) transgendered, any more than my wearing my fiance's jeans and a men's shirt makes me transgendered. "Playing at" being the opposite gender is called "acting." On the other end of the spectrum, the person in the example who has undergone SRS is not a woman, and it is offensive to refer to him as one.
(He refers to SRS candidates as having to "dress as their preferred gender")
And there he goes again! A candidate for SRS must LIVE as their preferred gender, NOT JUST DRESS THAT WAY. You want an explosion in a room full of transgendered people? Bring up restroom use.
("SRS surgery for men includes...")
AND AGAIN. If you are undergoing SRS and receiving a vagina, YOU ARE NOT A MAN. THIS IS NOT SRS FOR MEN. Male-bodied, okay. BUT NOT MEN.
And yet you call transmen "transgendered males?" You're willing to acknowledge that transwomen are women (sort of) but not that transmen are men. WHAT IS THAT EVEN.
("Transgendered males require" to be completely butchered, really. Also one surgery is more attractive but less successful! Also it costs more! That's why those transgendered males don't have the surgery all the time, don't you know. Because of the price tag.)
Also, transmen DO NOT REQUIRE anything. They may CHOOSE to have a phalloplasty. And transmen may not choose to have bottom surgery not because it's more expensive but because it creates "genitalia" that DO NOT WORK. Many transmen would rather have the wrong-but-functioning set, rather than the "right" but nonfunctional set.
Maybe I can get through this article if I mock it mercilessly for you guys.
There he goes calling crossdressers ("crossdressers, and drag kings and queens") transgendered again. There are transgendered crossdressers, and then there are cismen who just like to wear panties, okay? I crossdressed for a solo performance last semester; it did not make me suddenly transgendered.
Once again, Mr. Rosenblum ignores the fact that phalloplasty doesn't create a functional penis, and maybe that's why transmen don't want them (this time he refers to it as "relatively recent" as well as more expensive).
"there is male bias in the perspectives of the researchers."
LIKE YOU, SWEETIE.
"Also, social pressures prevent women from self expression of gender and sexual identity."
More than transwomen? I don't have my statistics handy, but my gut says that's not right. Anybody want to back me up? Considering this article is mostly focusing on the problems transwomen have in jail, I think you may have your perspective a little skewed, honey. Observe how much more acceptable it is for a female-bodied person to wear pants and a men's shirt than a male-bodied person to wear a dress. Note how often heterosexual cismen react with mockery and outright violence to the evidence of femininity in other male-bodied people. Tell me about those social pressures again?
FINALLY he refers to transgendered MEN. Page 14.
I probably should not have the reaction, "Transmen in prison don't have as many problems as transwomen because female inmates are not TOTAL ASSHOLES," but I do.
Okay, my shift is over, so I'm going to post this for now. Page 19 of 74, children. Lord have mercy on my soul.
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Date: 2010-11-12 04:56 pm (UTC)From:There's plenty of debate in the community about terminology but yeah, that rubs me the wrong way all around. But yes, I believe that women placed in a mens prison are at much higher risk for rape and abuse.
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Date: 2010-11-12 07:28 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-11-12 06:29 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-11-12 07:28 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-11-12 07:30 pm (UTC)From:I'd fail whatever assignment you're reading that for. I just. How can people honestly be so ignorant, I just do not get it. I'd be all like /RAEGQUIT
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Date: 2010-11-12 07:42 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-11-13 04:33 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-11-12 09:22 pm (UTC)From:I do not even know all that much about the subject and I am just kinda blinking blankly at the screen.
Geeze.
That is some epic fail right there. Shakespeare agrees.