The Gay Cavemen Are Coming to Paint Your Children's Toenails!

[happiestsadist]

A couple things have been all over the media, and, because they have to do with gender, pretty much everyone's been fucking up when reporting them. This is pissing me off

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[charlycrash]

The other day, whilst putting on some eyeliner, I did think "Huh. I could really use some brutal cock up my ass right now"*.

I managed to go off on a vituperative rant about the painted toenails to ms_daisy_cutter which I shall repeat here:

"DUN DUN DAAAAAA. Well, we don't want good little white males growing up into faggots, do we?

I really want to slap whoever wrote the quoted piece.

Also see this:

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2011/04/08/maryland-gender-equality/

It's reading bullshit like this that makes me have to face up to the fact that left to my own devices I'd express a hell of a lot more genderqueerness than I actually do. But I'm so used to being in an environment where it wouldn't just get me mocked in the street but would probably get my nose broken (or worse) that I don't. And hell, this is probably far closer to the friendlier end of the spectrum for that sort of thing than the unfriendly end. I doubt I'd last two minutes in some parts of London if I looked sufficiently weird.

It's so fucking crap. I hate it."

Sorry, a bit whiny and a bit TMI.

* I can be quite "girly" - or as someone said to me recently, "you seem entirely genderless", I'm a sort of mix-and-match bag of both sides - and other than the occasional passing thought I've never once seriously wanted to have sex with a man. CLEARLY I DON'T ACTUALLY EXIST

[charlycrash]

Also, the "omg making kids trans" party really needs to look into the biology of the stria terminalis.

But I'd imagine that, as you more or less say, it's not even that they're thinking about it in such nuanced terms. It's probably more like "omg, that's weird and faggy and he'll grow up to be weird and faggy".

[happiestsadist]

To be honest, I'm pretty sure they have more or less no idea what trans actually means and encompasses.

[happiestsadist]

I know I get away with a lot more genderqueerness where I am now than where I used to live. Though I figure I'll likely get bashed a some point or another. We sound pretty similar in presentation: "Lots of both and neither, but with eyeliner involved".

[charlycrash]

Heh.

I hate that we live in a world that you can get physically assaulted simply for the way you look. It's just so.. arghhhh.

Sorry for being so rage-y about this, but it's just one of those things that really, really sets me off. I hate the fact that I've been so programmed to be ashamed of being a certain way that doesn't affect let alone hurt anyone else.

[happiestsadist]

No need to apologize at all. I rage about it pretty much all the time myself.