Comments | egydystonic: Idiots Abound

egydystonic

Idiots Abound

Oct 08, 2007 09:25

This asshole, wondering how the hell the T got in LGBT and arguing that transgender protections should have always been left out of ENDA, seems to think trans people should wait for rights, just like women did for fifty years after "blacks" (who are apparently all men) got the vote in 1870. He says it as though that was okay, as if it was just ( Read more... )

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forkgordita October 8 2007, 17:45:36 UTC

Your T friends appreciate your passion on this issue.. Glad to hear that someone I know seems to give a crap.

wildflowerfever October 8 2007, 19:10:31 UTC

"Mary fucking Wollstonecraft."

Haha-- I don't think I've ever heard you talk like that.

And yes: people are assholes.

. . .

So have you looked at the course offerings? Anything exciting?

There's QUEER THEORY!

egydystonic October 8 2007, 19:26:03 UTC

I know, I know, I know. I don't know if we're going to take it yet. There's too much! Hmmph. Do you know if you're taking a non-MFA class? If so, what?

wildflowerfever October 8 2007, 19:29:46 UTC

Well, hopefully I'm going to be taking Queer Theory as my non-MFA class. I'm hoping to ask the MFA program director tomorrow.

I'm also writing an email to the studio art folks, begging them to take pity on me and allow me into photography.

The actual literature classes, though? Hmm. To most of them, I say: no thanks. (The Politics of Post Structuralism class is really tempting, though, as is Beowulf.)

What about you?

soulseeker5 October 8 2007, 20:29:47 UTC

As someone who once took Queer Theory from UIUC may I ask who the prof is going to be?

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