Tag Archives: transphobia

Say It Like It Is

By Maddie | Published December 13, 2009

She’s amazing <3

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Once More Unto The Breach

By Maddie | Published November 10, 2009

Further to my last entry, Elana is continuing to fight a good fight on Feministing with this post. I seriously doubt I will comment, I’m not even sure I want to read the comments that much once it gets going. But kudos, Elana, for a very, very, pertinent and well made point. And for continuing [...]

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Feministing and Unchecked Prejudice

By Maddie | Published November 5, 2009

I really would like to like Feministing. I’ve tried to. As others have called for boycotts to draw attention to transphobia there, or organised open letters to point out the ableism, blogged about the racism, I kept reading, kept wanting to find good in it. Thing is that sometimes there is. It’s a big site [...]

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Just Because

By Maddie | Published November 3, 2009

Just because you aren’t racist, doesn’t mean you never have a racist thought or say something racist.
If you aren’t homophobic, you will still sometimes express a bigoted sentiment.
Even if you are not sexist, sometimes you will say something or believe something that is.
If you don’t fear trans people, it doesn’t mean you don’t have transphobic [...]

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Seriously?

By Maddie | Published July 29, 2009

In the last week my blog has attracted more spam than usual to certain posts. One reason comments from new people are set for me to approve before appearing. An increasing number have been trying to get links to “shemale porn” posted in comments.
Quick quote from wikipedia on that word shemale:
In LGBT communities, especially amongst [...]

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Television From Another World

By Maddie | Published July 23, 2009

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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Cis the Third

By Maddie | Published July 2, 2009

Hello again and welcome back to my continuing current preoccupation with the words cis, cisgender and cissexual. Clearly I haven’t got my frustration out of my system yet. Quiet at the back, no groaning. Today I’m going to very quickly (no really, doing this at the length the conversations these are based on would need [...]

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Cis

By Maddie | Published June 30, 2009

There’s a rather large blogsplosion going on, based on the response to, and subsequent “debate” around, the term cis. In the best tradition of blogging about blogging and sticking one’s oar in to a debate that you are only tenuously connected to by reading about it while linking to other blogs, I’m going to do [...]

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