On Angel: "Supersymmetry." Out of the clear blue sky Fred and Wesley are vengance buddies, Lillah's jealous and hey, Connor, you're a creepazoid. Gunn will surely hate and blame Fred for this fuckery forever and they are now doomed. I'd know that even if Gunn hadn't said as much. Also, yum, misogyny in academia.
My whole existence doesn't get summed up in a less-than-human gross-out trope in the same way. The people I fear because I am trans -- cismen, mostly straight -- are less likely to notice me. If they do, my risk is less acute than it is for a trans woman. Much as invisibility and dismissal is a bummer, I'm uncomfortable with appropriating the struggles of people under the other half of the umbrella. For all the shit I go through, it doesn't hold a candle.
It describes me to some extent, and I'm not ready to march against using the word anywhere ever -- it is in a lot of ways more tenable than me using the word "fag" to describe myself -- but I'm sort of 60/40 on the whole thing these days.
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Date: 2010-06-22 08:02 pm (UTC)My whole existence doesn't get summed up in a less-than-human gross-out trope in the same way. The people I fear because I am trans -- cismen, mostly straight -- are less likely to notice me. If they do, my risk is less acute than it is for a trans woman. Much as invisibility and dismissal is a bummer, I'm uncomfortable with appropriating the struggles of people under the other half of the umbrella. For all the shit I go through, it doesn't hold a candle.
It describes me to some extent, and I'm not ready to march against using the word anywhere ever -- it is in a lot of ways more tenable than me using the word "fag" to describe myself -- but I'm sort of 60/40 on the whole thing these days.
It's also possible I worry too much.