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deathcase liked aalyce's picture

birthday swag.

so i turned 22 last week.
and ive been in queensland for a mini escape for the last few days. but im back now with time to booth. (:

so my wonderful boyfriend got me a bunch of pac man stuff. including alarm clock. (it is the most annoying thing ever!!)
he also got me a pair of lita shoes but they havent got here yet!! ):
my brother and his girlfriend got me a huge angry bird... they bought it to me while i was at work. i almost cried with happiness!! (: so cute and fluffy.
and my bestie got me a bunch of random stuff. toy story bubble bath. ariel princess doll. mr potato head.

(:

August 22nd, 2011
deathcase liked MarshallEsquire's picture

#DealingWithStereotypes

Day #2

#GENDER

Well Derp-da-derp-da-diddly-diddly-derpa-dur, today I'm talking about gender; one of the more powerful stereotypes I'd like to talk about at length.

Once I've gotten over laughing at this picture.

So; when you're born, a person with a qualification in medicine looks at your genitals, makes a note, and you're male or female, and if the doctor can't tell, that person will usually cut you up to try and look like one or the other.

That part of my body looked like a penis so, if I get out my birth certificate now, it says 'male' on the front.

This is essentially a free ticket to all sorts of things, and you all know what they are. You can't get through this life without hearing or experiencing something first-hand about male privilege.

It can be subtle - much of the way I portray myself and say on this website can happen without complaint or stupid comment because I register as birth-male.

The fact is, I have never felt very male at all. In fact, I am not entirely sure what a man is supposed to be.

It isn't about genitalia, because nobody can tell what's down there without looking, and neither is it about hormones or chromosomes - I know people of whatever gender who have a biology that a doctor would not approve of at birth - yet they get along fine as whoever they know themselves to be.

Well, what is it about then? Is it about frocks and petticoats, and t-shirt and jeans? Well, no. Legal men and legal women can wear either without the sky falling down.

That men are more dominant and egocentric and women submissive and community-centric? Nonsense, I know legal men and women who are any of these, not to mention my suspicions that this is only a result of centuries of a gender-system that grants a suspiciously fabricated group of legal men rights over a suspiciously fabricated group of legal women, and gives them roles to full-fill.

I'm still at a loss.

I'm at a loss further still that it's never questioned.

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As a man it was bad enough having to step into the shoes of someone who has to walk a certain way, talk a certain way, slouch a certain way, learn in a certain way and compete in a certain way and of course, look a certain way. I imagine it was even worse for those reading this who were brought up as a woman.

Unfortunately I hated this training, and liked to play with dolls, Polly Pockets, dress up and make-up, magic wands, pretend marriage or skipping; or being cuddled and petted and making people breakfast, just as much as I liked using axes, playing in the mud, making little gooey monsters and shooting aliens down in tanks.

I was often called a poof; a girl, freak or weirdo, and stood in front of a mirror as a little kid pulling my face and feeling ashamed and hating myself. I hated P.E., and got through it by ignoring everyone and everything else and trying not to cry out of frustration when I fell over or knocked myself against something, and eventually just tried to sit out every time.

Eventually, however, as everyone does, I realised that some people don't care about this, and even like me for being myself - skipping and crossing my legs and all. I got over my terror and shame after I realised that these things didn't make me a woman just as P.E. didn't make me feel like a man - because I didn't have to be either and could leave that sort of thing to other people.

Nowadays, I'm not really referred to particularly as either outside of a joke. I'm particularly delighted when I'm referred to thus: 'we have several girls, a few guys.. hey, we have a Marshall!'

It reminds me that I, or anyone else, can make their own gender and can get recognition for that rather than something on a birth certificate.

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How did you find your own experience of being brought up as a little girl, or a little boy?

If gender is more than man and woman, what would you describe yourself to be?

If you feel like a man or a woman, what would you do if you had to spend the day as the opposite gender?

August 10th, 2011
deathcase liked nugatti's picture

kjærlighet

July 26th, 2011
deathcase liked PepperMonster's picture

Redheads > everyone else

July 2nd, 2011
deathcase liked Elektroll's picture

@deathcase hei

June 12th, 2011
deathcase liked cianoncrazypills' picture

I just had a walk. In a t-shirt. and shorts.
SUMMER MOTHER FUCKA!
But yea, exams next week. I'm glad they'll be done. I've been studying all day so i'm guna treat myself to watching sherlock and reading paper towns and hunger games.
Life is good right now :)

June 2nd, 2011
deathcase liked sure3's picture

My room is filled with baloons and @deathcase ;) whats your roome filled with? (by the way it is more baloons but you cant see them:( )

May 20th, 2011
deathcase liked Mary__Winn's picture

lol new glasses.
wassup bro.

April 27th, 2011
deathcase liked Lik's picture

That day when I was so incredibly satisfied with my (lame ass) H&M shoes that I sat on the livingroom table as to take pictures of them. Heeled Shoes really need to be made higher when size adds up, or else the proportion is all wrong.

April 27th, 2011
deathcase liked eple's picture

han er stygg men du får ikke mobbe han, han har hatt et hard liv nok som det er :@ :@

April 25th, 2011

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my name is mia, and i'm norwegian. unless you are too, that makes me cooler than you. all my life, or at least as far as i can remember, i've loved pokémon. i truly believed they were real, and i cried for days when i found out they weren't. i still want a vulpix.
i also love photography, music and concerts. moshing is fun, except for the fact that i'm pretty small compared to all the other people who moshes, so i get thrown away easily.
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