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Television From Another World
So we were watching this programme on TV this evening, “Help Mijn Man Is Een Klusser”, which roughly translates as “Hey Some Men Do DIY And Some Of Them Don’t Finish It So Some Other Men Will And We Can all Be Sympathetic And Patronising To His Long Suffering Wife While Casting Aspertions On The [...]
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Also tagged belgium, culture, homophobia, prejudice, racism, sexism, stereotypes, television, transphobia
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Notorious
I’ve had a few conversations about anger in the last couple of months. Indeed, my last few posts have been about an event that has caused anger, that included anger in it. In fact, I read this today, on a very definitely trans ally person’s blog (not saying which because who wrote it is not [...]
And Even More Cis Use
As an update to my previous post, Cis I want to link to other some other people saying important things in relation to this. You know, just to show that this is not just one or two people being funny, but that this actually does matter! The power politics of words is real and has [...]
In Belgium Discrimination Needs No Explanation
One of the things I’m thinking about at the moment is what I might do in the future as a career. An odd thing to think about you might think for someone already in their mid thirties. Not really though, I’ve already started one career as an architect, I found that the reality of the [...]
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Also tagged belgium, cissexism, Feminism, gender, racism, second life, sexism, trans feminism, virtual worlds, Work
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Story of Stuff
Sometimes you come across something that explains a complex idea really well. This is one such thing, Story of Stuff. It’s partisan and US centric but it’s one of the most accessible explanations of how the consumer society model has created and perpetuates environmental damage and the economic exploitation of the third world and people [...]
France and IDAHO
Two things to post today, firstly it is International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia today.
Second, and this seems to be showing up only in trans* blogs and French language news sites, I’m linking you to a translation of the story on Le Monde’s website as the most authoritative I can find. France have officially announced, [...]
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Also tagged homophobia, news, opinion, Trans feminism, trans feminism, transphobia
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Marriage Wrongs
Seeing as I live as female and most of the time most people are seeing me as the woman I am, my partner and I are usually seen as a lesbian couple. Which is all fine. We’re actually married too, in the UK. Not a Civil Partnership, but your actual marriage.
OK so now it gets [...]
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Also tagged cissexism, life, marriage, opinion, Trans feminism, trans woman
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Television
I find television really hard to watch lately. Not that it’s got worse or that I get more bored than I used to, but because I have become increasingly aware of the lazy gender stereotyping and sexism that is just so ubiquitous. Adverts are of course the worst offenders. Seriously, television adverts must be the [...]
