Discrimination
I love the BBC programme called QI. It has all the things I love in a TV programme: Great comedy, interesting subjects and Stephen Fry! Last night, it returned to BBC 1 and I naturally watched it and, as usual, it was fun, it was interesting and it pushed the barriers a bit, this time [...]
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I, unfortunately, have a habit of occasionally exceeding the speed limit a little. In general, I’m actually pretty careful and do try to keep my foot off the accelerator when there are speed limits (thankfully not always the case in Germany), but I was recently caught by one of these wonderful forward-facing speed cameras the [...]
You know how it is sometimes, when you think and think about the way to put something and then someone does it a thousand times better than you could? Well, that’s just happened: Andrew Wheeler over at the Post-Game Show just did the post to end all posts on gay marriage and on poking through [...]
The title to this post may seem flippant to some and may seem touchy to others. I use it for a simple reason: There is really something in common. When someone goes to prison, they do so because our legal system has found them guilty of a crime. There’s a huge stigma attached to this [...]
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This Monday, I approached my boss to start working with him on when I could have my surgery. I’ve finally put together the money after having lost it twice (with the failure of my company in 2006 and losing my job in 2008) so I am rather sensitive about having this done as soon as [...]
I stopped reading Feministing a little while before the whole trans boycott of the site largely because it was clear to me that it isn’t a safe place for trans women. It was already quite clear to me that the site holds a quite narrow view of feminism which did exclude a lot of women [...]
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Helen Boyd’s recent post on (en)Gender (“Jeez Louise this cisgendered nonsese”) got me thinking. I think it got a lot of trans people thinking. I can understand a lot of her objections to the term and to the way it has been used, but I think there’s a key problem with anyone objecting to the [...]
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The thing called “male privilege” is very real. Men do maintain a role in this world dripping of privilege which allows them to behave despicably to women. This behaviour starts with disparaging concepts and stereotypes of women, leads on to views of the role of women in this world which keep women down and on [...]
I’m bisexual. Both before and after transition, I’ve found myself attracted to both men and women. I think that this is partially due to my gender issues, but I think it’s also an intrinsic part of who I am: I can see things which entice me in either sex, though I have to admit that [...]