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tenshinoakuma) wrote2009-03-15 08:16 pm
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Okay so. This has bugged me for a while about group logs, but man whenever I do them, I always feel like I'm third wheeling someone. I guess this kind of arises from my tendency to fixate so I kind of find it hard to give all the characters involved in a group log equal attention. And half the time I just. don't know what to say to the other one? IDKKK I just feel kind of bad about it.
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Alright, so we all probably know about that one gender-swap RP that's ass. But it (and the resulting rants and rage over it) kind of made me think about my own concept of gender.
What does it mean to identify as male or female? Is there actually any difference between identifying as one or the other? Can't you identify as both, or neither?
Basically what I'm trying to say is, I don't get it.
Talk to me about what you think gender means, f-list! / ; A;/
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Alright, so we all probably know about that one gender-swap RP that's ass. But it (and the resulting rants and rage over it) kind of made me think about my own concept of gender.
What does it mean to identify as male or female? Is there actually any difference between identifying as one or the other? Can't you identify as both, or neither?
Basically what I'm trying to say is, I don't get it.
Talk to me about what you think gender means, f-list! / ; A;/
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you know this canon right
otherwise this icon makes no sense
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i know what you've told me about it. i still haven't read it because i forgot all about it.
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icon says all
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Although I suppose that RP wasn't actually that hard to find.
bb, forgive me for commenting with a muse journal /buried in tags
And, re: gender -- I got nothin'. Right now, that is, since I'm a little brain-dead. I'll try to think of something, though!
it's okay bb. 90% of my comments to non F-locked journals are done with Joshua
♥
XDDD I guess I should spam people with Aizen more often
/follows in Mia's footsteps
SO YEAHHHHHH
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But at the same time as wanting equality, I feel there's going to be a difference because idk. To me, male and female are the same, and different as well. I guess if people want equality between the genders, they're going to have to start redefining how they view gender? To me it was never about womens' rights, but peoples' rights.
idkkk it's kind of like. Here are all of society's labels, and here is me. Who's in it, but not understanding how they affect anything. Or rather, why they even should D:a
/rambling
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The fixation of gender doesn't really seem to be about..well...gender itself, so much as our world's love for categories and nice, simple, boxes. I mean look at sexuality. It too is a very complex thing, and there are people out there who don't really label themselves as heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, or any of the many other labels out there because it really is a nebulous thing. When you can't give anyone a definitive answer on that, though, they get really uncomfortable or nervous for some reason.
Same thing goes with religion, race, subcultures etc. Gender is another way to define people, to get to know who they are, or at least who they are suppose to be. People like that, and they especially like that it's something that is less of a choice for others, and so they definitely have to act in these sorts of ways, and so we know a little more about them and what they are like.
Of course this is all complete bullshit, but I can't help but feel that a lot of people buy into that. Over so many years it has become a sort of comfort zone, and in our days it is being incredibly uprooted and challenge (particularly by the intersex community) but it's a very slow process.
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Maybe we shouldn't be looking at which box we should fit into, but maybe take the parts that we want of what's in the box.
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SO WHY CAN'T I THINK OF ANY OF THEM RIGHT NOW
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YOU SUCK.