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Tumblr crosspost (15 June 2020)
Mar. 12th, 2022 02:27 pm
something good ... happened ... ?
#a 6-3 vote too!
something good ... happened ... ?
#a 6-3 vote too!
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Jun. 10th, 2020 01:11 pmThe Rowling thing is so depressing. My personal sense of gender is ?????? so it doesn't really affect me personally, but ... blech.
(I've heard some people saying that her attitudes are pretty mainstream among the British left, and that's ... also blech.)
(I've heard some people saying that her attitudes are pretty mainstream among the British left, and that's ... also blech.)
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May. 17th, 2020 11:44 amSometimes the distinction between "female but alienated from hetero conceptions of femininity" and "agender but tired" is not as strong as I'd like it to be.
[crosspost] Feb 13th, 2019
Feb. 16th, 2019 08:21 amThe date is purely because I posted various short things on the 13th that don't merit separate crossposts, but I am a completionist.
[warning: fic-spoilery references to canonical sibling incest]
( Read more... )
[warning: fic-spoilery references to canonical sibling incest]
( Read more... )
I keep running across a not-quite-trope -- an argument -- that I find immensely problematic. I'm going to talk about it now, through my own feminism, which may not be yours. Consider yourself warned for that, along with discussions of violence and sexual assault.
( A defense of double standards )
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Title: First Impressions (6/13, 7/13)
Fanverse: First Impressions
Blurb: Jane goes to the Gardiners' and Henry to the Collinses'; Henry meets Lady Catherine, Anne, Colonel Fitzwilliam, and (once again) Catherine; many hints are dropped.
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( Chapter Six )
( Chapter Seven )
( A defense of double standards )
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Title: First Impressions (6/13, 7/13)
Fanverse: First Impressions
Blurb: Jane goes to the Gardiners' and Henry to the Collinses'; Henry meets Lady Catherine, Anne, Colonel Fitzwilliam, and (once again) Catherine; many hints are dropped.
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( Chapter Six )
( Chapter Seven )
thinking about gender + memes
Jul. 26th, 2011 08:12 amI feel like a bad feminist for saying it, but I hate being a woman. Not even for the social ramifications of it. I just hate it.
( negativity re: femaleness, probably TMI, Elizabeth Has Issues, binarism (?) )
( Star Wars meme (Day 10 ;_;) )
( Asexuality meme (10) )
( Fanfic meme (10) )
( negativity re: femaleness, probably TMI, Elizabeth Has Issues, binarism (?) )
( Star Wars meme (Day 10 ;_;) )
( Asexuality meme (10) )
( Fanfic meme (10) )
asexuality paper of doom
Jan. 23rd, 2011 07:09 pmSo, I'm working feverishly (...ish) on my asexuality presentation, and had a meeting with my (former!) prof about it. After a segue into my future career (no, you can be a psychologist without great math skillz, really!), he waxed eloquent on my paper, and how it needed to be shared with the world, for science -- maybe I could write an article based on it, or -- no, no a book. My face was probably hilarious.
Anyway, that reminded me that I'd never posted it here, and I'd meant to because ... I wanted to. It's very honest about what I thought and felt, so warning for -- IIRC -- ableist and sexist thinking, references to past suicidal ideation, religion, and maybe other things.
( Here it is! )
Anyway, that reminded me that I'd never posted it here, and I'd meant to because ... I wanted to. It's very honest about what I thought and felt, so warning for -- IIRC -- ableist and sexist thinking, references to past suicidal ideation, religion, and maybe other things.
( Here it is! )
I've been re-reading The Myth of Mars and Venus, which I convinced my mother to give me for Christmas. It's hard not to read straight through; I love the author's style, as well as agreeing completely with her point, and I have to admit I giggle (and cheer) every time she mentions evolutionary psychology:
-- Arguing that some apparently modern phenomenon, like shopping or eating junk food, can best be explained by going back to the Stone Age is the hallmark of a branch of science known as evolutionary psychology.
-- This kind of explanation is unavoidably speculative, because it depends on reconstructing the details of Stone Age life from the very limited evidence that survives.
-- When researchers propose that our approaches to shopping reflect traits inherited from Stone Age hunter-gatherers, it is hard not to be reminded of The Flintstones.
-- This claim underscores a problem with evolutionary psychology which I have already drawn attention to-- the inherently speulative nature of its arguments. These are often ingenious, but in the absence of direct evidence about prehistoric language-use, impossible to verify or falsify. There are too many different and incompatible stories that can be made to fit the supposed facts-- especially if, like many of the writers I have mentioned, you approach the (modern) evidence like a peahen at a lek, fastening enthusiastically on the splashiest generalisations while disregarding the more serviceable but drabber specimens.
and for the win: Evolutionary psychology is open to a similar criticism: that it takes today's social prejudices and projects them back into prehistory, thus elevating them to the status of timeless truths about he human condition.
Anyway, she mentioned a website in passing: the Gender Genie, which uses some algorithm (-->mathly things) to automatically deduce your gender from a sample of your writing (it varies by fiction, nonfiction, and blog post).
Apparently, I'm a man.
In fact I'm decidedly manly as a blogger and a nonfiction writer; slightly, as a ficcer; and androgynous as a writer of (gasp!) original fiction. Yay me!
-- Arguing that some apparently modern phenomenon, like shopping or eating junk food, can best be explained by going back to the Stone Age is the hallmark of a branch of science known as evolutionary psychology.
-- This kind of explanation is unavoidably speculative, because it depends on reconstructing the details of Stone Age life from the very limited evidence that survives.
-- When researchers propose that our approaches to shopping reflect traits inherited from Stone Age hunter-gatherers, it is hard not to be reminded of The Flintstones.
-- This claim underscores a problem with evolutionary psychology which I have already drawn attention to-- the inherently speulative nature of its arguments. These are often ingenious, but in the absence of direct evidence about prehistoric language-use, impossible to verify or falsify. There are too many different and incompatible stories that can be made to fit the supposed facts-- especially if, like many of the writers I have mentioned, you approach the (modern) evidence like a peahen at a lek, fastening enthusiastically on the splashiest generalisations while disregarding the more serviceable but drabber specimens.
and for the win: Evolutionary psychology is open to a similar criticism: that it takes today's social prejudices and projects them back into prehistory, thus elevating them to the status of timeless truths about he human condition.
Anyway, she mentioned a website in passing: the Gender Genie, which uses some algorithm (-->mathly things) to automatically deduce your gender from a sample of your writing (it varies by fiction, nonfiction, and blog post).
Apparently, I'm a man.
In fact I'm decidedly manly as a blogger and a nonfiction writer; slightly, as a ficcer; and androgynous as a writer of (gasp!) original fiction. Yay me!
