RE: Gender?
12-05-2014, 04:14 AM
I don't think you have to change the name of the thread, in myopic nipples
gender is a complicated thing because as a bunch of modern humans we've been exposed since birth to arbitrary social concepts of what it is and how we have to live by it. This forum's community is probably-disproportionately composed of people who have had some dissatisfying experience with gender and use this internet space and others as a safe space to put it through the works: stretch it, snap it, bend it, dissect it, subvert it, and argue it should all be tossed in a fire.
We're in a collective process of unlearning its "rules", but in no small part there's many people here who find/found community and group identity specifically through shared dissatisfaction with the Genders. This is a good thing because it encourages ancillary people (like me) to examine their own interactions with gender and go "yeah, hang on, this is all bullshit" but it also does carry the endemic problems of internet folks gathering under a shared identity (go check out my upcoming post in the Subforum Ideas Thread where I'll hopefully remember to write about it; if I forget please for the love of god quote me on my insistence to do this).
Either way in the above situation joking about gender (which is a hurtful topic to be reminded of for some people) can misfire horribly in an insular group if you're not considered "in" :aukpinion:
gender is a complicated thing because as a bunch of modern humans we've been exposed since birth to arbitrary social concepts of what it is and how we have to live by it. This forum's community is probably-disproportionately composed of people who have had some dissatisfying experience with gender and use this internet space and others as a safe space to put it through the works: stretch it, snap it, bend it, dissect it, subvert it, and argue it should all be tossed in a fire.
We're in a collective process of unlearning its "rules", but in no small part there's many people here who find/found community and group identity specifically through shared dissatisfaction with the Genders. This is a good thing because it encourages ancillary people (like me) to examine their own interactions with gender and go "yeah, hang on, this is all bullshit" but it also does carry the endemic problems of internet folks gathering under a shared identity (go check out my upcoming post in the Subforum Ideas Thread where I'll hopefully remember to write about it; if I forget please for the love of god quote me on my insistence to do this).
Either way in the above situation joking about gender (which is a hurtful topic to be reminded of for some people) can misfire horribly in an insular group if you're not considered "in" :aukpinion:
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clouds is shaky love | broke as hell but i got a bunch of ringtones
eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow