gender identity is defined in so many ways… by sex, gender, sexuality,
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notice that the jobs for a “WOW Woman” is basically being a nurse or making weapons. Carrying a gun is a man’s job?
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A popular game on Facebook called SimSocial this picture is a screen shot of the game advertising that you can make a “boy” room or a “girl room”
boys have exciting things like dinosaurs, blue walls, and girl anime pictures while girls it’s cute, and pink and soft.
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When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink/When Did Boys Start Wearing Blue?
Thanks to my friend, Jody, on Facebook, I learned a lot about colors. VERY interesting take on the history of gender colors, particularly blue and pink. It’s really a recent mid-century social construct and how everything used to be opposite and topsy turvy. Here’s an excerpt that is really intriguing:
a June 1918 article from the trade publication Earnshaw’s Infants’ Department said, “The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl.” Other sources said blue was flattering for blonds, pink for brunettes; or blue was for blue-eyed babies, pink for brown-eyed babies, according to Paoletti.
-Chris H.
popular belief that women are suppose to do the cooking, cleaning, etc..
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Two transgender high school students in Fort Collins, Colo., say they have been forbidden to use student restrooms, and one of them, 16-year-old Dionne Malikowski, just got suspended for doing so. Malikowski, a trans girl, and her friend Kurt Peters, also 16 and a trans guy, say they have been told to use the staff bathrooms at Fort Collins High School. But, Malikowski told reporters, “There’s not staff bathrooms all over the school, so when you really got to pee, you got to pee.”
That’s what she says happened about a month ago when she used the women’s restroom, reports W9 News in Colorado. And then she was suspended for three days.
“I cried,” Malikowski said. “I told them that it was really messed up for them to do that to me, and they were like, ‘We’ve warned you before,’ and I was just like, ‘Obviously you don’t understand what it’s like.’”
Bathrooms are the single most common public place where the gender binary is strictly enforced, reports the Transgender Law Center. Since public restrooms are a place where people who are or are perceived to be gender-nonconforming are routinely harassed and often assaulted, the topic of bathroom safety and access is all too common conversation in schools these days. The center has been running a Safe Bathrooms Access Campaign and published the groundbreaking guide called Peeing in Peace.Another organization, Safe2Pee.org, offers a growing online database of public restrooms that transgender individuals can access safely. There are six listed in Fort Collins, but that doesn’t help campus-bound teens like Malikowski.
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Followers, have you read this article on the Ms Blog about No Shave November? It raises some interesting ideas about why there’s a month for men to go without shaving, but for women is considered absolutely horrible.
I really feel like this is such a good point. Last November, I went the entire…
Words Used in Advertising for Toys
I want tobea fireman instead of a princess :(
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