050912 ♥ 14Tom Gabel ( now Laura Jane Grace), of Against Me!, is transgendered? I would’ve never guessed that based on image. I’ll make them the band of the week for that (even though I am not a fan)
It always shocks me when normal looking people come out as trans. Who appear cisgender and then BANG. Especially in the rock world. As a rock star you have so much freedom.
Of course, truth be told, I don’t understand how anyone can be cisgendered. How boring and dull is that! I am always skeptical of cisgender people as I don’t even consider them real individuals. Just mindless clones.
Now, generally speaking, I identify as trans. But i don’t do hormones or anything because I am poor as shit AND it’s too binary. I guess that is what concerns me about cis people who come out as trans like that. Going from one gender role to the other in an extreme. I live my life between genders. Some days I wear fake boobs, sometimes I wear a dress without shaving my face and sometimes I wear pants and look like Kurt Cobain. Whatever my mood is. It’s Hollywood I can easily get away with this shit.
Not to say I didn’t challenge gender in Ohio! It’s just less threatening here. Granted Hollywood has tons of trans people and West Hollywood is right next door.
It’s good Laura is being herself, finally. But, looking at pictures of that band, they just look so testro driven rock. They didn’t challenge shit. And, as superficial as this is, a bands look is part of the appeal. I can’t get into bands that are all male and where they all have short hair and look normal. Especially in the year 2012.
I’ve never hid who I am. Why would a rock star hide for so long? And if I ever got married (which I refuse to do until everyone has the right to get married regardless of sex) I wouldn’t hide who I am.
But fear is a powerful thing I suppose. I just hope transiting brings Laura happiness.
Some ugly kid popped on my dashboard and that picture has like 67,000 notes. So I looked at the notes and everyone is giong on about how pretty and attracitve he is.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? Dude is straight up ugly. Like, honestly, i just shake my head and am amazed at how…
Well, actually, the conversation went something like this:
Girl 1: Yeah, he didn’t even open doors for me! I mean, how rude!
Girl 2: He’s from Israel, so aren’t the women, like, lower there?
Girl 1: No, women are, like, equal there.
Me, awkwardly having to share a lunch table with them: …..
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AWW omg, this is seriously one of the best things I’ve ever seen. Spread the love.
(Source: chotpot)
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If Barbie was an actual woman, she would be 5’9” tall, have a 39” bust, an 18” waist, 33” hips and a size 3 shoe.
• Barbie calls this a “full figure” and likes her weight at 110 lbs.
• At 5’9” tall and weighing 110 lbs, Barbie would have a BMI of 16.24 and fit the weight criteria for anorexia. She likely would not menstruate.
• If Barbie was a real woman, she’d have to walk on all fours due to her proportions.
• Slumber Party Barbie was introduced in 1965 and came with a bathroom scale permanently set at 110 lbs with a book entitled “How to Lose Weight” with directions inside stating simply “Don’t eat.”
i’m always reblogging this.
I’ve reblogged this a million times and will ALWAYS reblog it. She is so beautiful…It’s a great message.
(via blessful-disaster)
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So I did this research my friends and I started messing around with this. We found that if you don’t alter your path when walking toward a man, a lot of men will almost run right into you, or bump their shoulder against yours, and then turn and give you this weird look. The weird looks you get are increased if you stand up straight with squared shoulders and take longer strides. I habitually walk this way now, and I continue to get puzzled looks by men who turn around after I pass them and watch me with an uncertain look."
Own Your Space! (via andythenerd)
Thinking about how occupying space is gendered can be eye-opening, and it’s usually evident when you look around in public and watch people. Public transit and the way people occupy space there is a perfect example- who are the people who lean their entire body against the poles? Who are the people who sit with their legs spread and in the aisle? Who are the people whose elbows, arms, and belongings take up the space of seats beside them? And who are the people who sit with their legs together and arms folded, head down and eyes averted, looking like they’re trying to make themselves physically smaller?
(via unconventionalmoose)
Yes, this indeed. I get a lot of strange looks after I pass as well, because apparently the sidewalk is only big enough for two ‘men’, and the ‘girl’ who has to squish herself up against the building to let them pass. Mm, no. I don’t believe that is how it works.
(via itsdetachable)
I notice this all the time now, since I walk everywhere. Many, many times I’ve had to step aside or fall back in order to avoid being run into. Granted, there are tons of tourists here who are simply rude, regardless of gender. But I’ve often experienced this with men who are walking alone or in groups. Once, I was coming down a wide staircase at the mall, walking near a railing. Some guy decided to WALK RIGHT UP the side that I was coming down on! Even though the rest of the staircase was EMPTY. I was coming down first, and yet he expected ME to move out of his fucking way. Well I didn’t. I stayed on my side and he refused to move, so we almost ran into each other. I was livid because there was no reason for that. Pretty sure he was a tourist, but that still doesn’t excuse that type of rudeness.
(via the-wolfbats)
Right, the easiest way to prove that Korra is not a Mary-Sue is the fact she has flaws. The main principle on which the Mary-Sue characterization is based is the notion that she is perfect and everyone automatically loves her.
Korra has significant weakness. She struggles with spirituality and even her ability to be a powerful bender is a type of weakness in that it leads her to become frustrated and act rashly. That is all the evidence one needs to dismiss the accusation that Korra is Mary-Sue. Seriously, there doesn’t need to be any more of a debate. It is clear that Korra has a qualitative flaw and thus the discussion about the possibility of her being a Mary-Sue should end there.
But there is the pressing issue here is that the concept of a Mary-Sue is an inherently sexist one and I’ve discussed this before on this blog. I could write a lot on this, and I’ve seen on my dashboard some people already have. The easiest thing to point out is that if Korra was a dude, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. People would just be going, ‘wow, that dude is pretty snazzy.’ Instead the concept of the Mary-Sue is applied to virtually any female character that dares to be powerful and people calling Korra a Mary-Sue another example of that.
http://avataraang.tumblr.com/post/18963166210/korra-does-fit-some-of-the-characteristics-of-a-mary
Wasn’t sure how to reblog this great response from avataraang, so I just copied and pasted it here. I think this rings so painfully true about supposed Mary-Sues.
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kiriamaya:
[The system was never broken; it was built this way.]
Always reblog :/](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lye88mfPeW1qdzkt3o1_250.jpg)
[The system was never broken; it was built this way.]
Always reblog :/
(Source: gloriouschild, via genderbitch)
