My new definition of transsexual*

[lisaquestions]

"Magnet for assholes who want to say stupid bullshit."




* Plus all the usual stuff about transitioning and gender not being considered valid by society

Comments

[hazelsteapot.livejournal.com]

Necessary, but is it sufficient?

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Derrida would say that sufficiency is impossible.

[nixwilliams.livejournal.com]

<3

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

I'd put a Judith Butler quote here about how womanhood is multiplicity, but I can't find it.

[fall-of-sophia.livejournal.com]

don't forget to keep all of the constructs like "womanhood" at safe distance with quotation marks.

[dashingdeviant.livejournal.com]

Also, use intentionally nigh-incomprehensible writing, and say it's a revolutionary action.

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Heh. :)

I like Butler, but yet I am laughing.

[dashingdeviant.livejournal.com]

I like her ideas, but I think her writing style is counterproductive - I feel like Serano's critique of her work is a critique of the common misinterpretation of Butler's work, and I'm not sure if that was intentional or not. In any case, I think misinterpretation of Butler, partially caused by Butler's writing style, fuels transexualphobia in queer/trans communities.

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Not just queer/trans communities, but some feminists would use the back of a milk carton to justify that.

[dashingdeviant.livejournal.com]

Yes, definitely. I've also seen feminists who wouldn't normally touch Butler use her to justify transphobia (actually, I think we've all seen that).

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Hell, I've seen one use the Book of Genesis. They'll do anything, those wacky radfems.

[dashingdeviant.livejournal.com]

It would be funny if they weren't, you know, targeting real people.

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

I do laugh when I see bullshit like that, but it's still bullshit aimed at people like me, at saying my life shouldn't be what it is.

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Good "point".

[kiya]

... I go to Whitman.

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Walt Whitman?

Think of womanhood and you to be a woman;
The creation is womanhood
Have I not said that womanhood involves all?
Have I not told how the universe has nothing better than
the best womanhood?

[kiya]

I was just going for "I am large; I contain multitudes", but. :)

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

That'd work, too! :)

[gender-euphoric.livejournal.com]

D:

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

It's a joke...but I only laugh because it hurts.

No one said anything today, it just came up in conversation.

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

And it seemed funny. :)

[gender-euphoric.livejournal.com]

it was funny. i just think 'dismayed emoticon' is a funny response.
i just got done reading the bilerco project post(s). both at bilerco and QT. i can't sleep.

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Actually, it was. I'm just tired.

[bruceb.livejournal.com]

For some reason, when I run into the kindred phenomenon for my crud, I keep thinking of some (pardon the goofiness of the visuals) Paul Simon lyrics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKcse3kCBso):

It was in the early morning hours
When I fell into a phone call.
Believing I had supernatural powers
I slammed into a brick wall,
I said hey, is this my problem?,
Is this my fault?,
If that's the way it's going to be
I'm going to call the whole thing to a halt

That delightfully weary aggrieved way he says "Is this my problem? Is this my fault?" captures so much of the experience.

Maybe the oppressed of the world need a group deal on self-heating branding irons that say BRANDED BY A SUBJECT, NOT AN OBJECT.

[eclexia.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, extra buckets of win to you for the Paul Simon quote, especially off of Graceland. I do think you chose the wrong song.

Slip sliding away, slip sliding away.
You know, the closer your destination the more
your slip sliding away.

I know a woman, became a wife
These are the very words she uses to describe her life.
She said, "A good day
Ain't got no rain,"
She said, "A bad day I sit in bed,
And think of things that might have been."

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Like that one, too. :)

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Awesome. :)

[moondancerdrake.livejournal.com]

HUGS!

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Thank you, just hoping it was funny, too. :)

[dashingdeviant.livejournal.com]

Yes, totally, unfortunately.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Given what you get if you google on the word, also:' magnet for stupid arseholes who want to READ (or look at) bullshit!

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Quite true!

I posted this as a joke, and look what it became!

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

... a longer joke. :)

[mresundance.livejournal.com]

Eeeeh.

I woobie you for this.

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Glad you like. :)

Nice Captain Hammer icon.