objections and obsessions
i have one class left for this week because i’m taking tomorrow off to judge student congress and ld at the high school. i’m at least mostly excited about it. although i have to admit that i’m dreading judging a full day of congress and home that maybe i’ll get at least one full session off :-/ oi. i’m just worried i’ll give them all ones for giving the same speech. because i hate that. and if they are like the 6th speaker on the same side of a topic they should probably get a one. and if they can’t speak on the other side of the topic they should probably get a 1. and if i get really fucking bored they should probably just get a 2 or something. even if their speech is great. i’m like the best judge ever. represent the personal biases. i should work on that. i guess i’m not really that biased i’ll just judge on really weird things or get angry about weird things i should say because i don’t even actually give downs to people who use gender language even though that REALLY angers me.
speaking of gender language, i think genderless pronouns are about one of the worst ideas i’ve ever heard. first of all, i was introduced to them mostly in the context of “maybe we could use this word to give transexuals a gender.” AUGH! the problem with this line of analysis is that its completely ignoring the fact that transexuals consider themselves to be gendered. so if you’re going to say that we should have the genderless pronouns Ze and Hir and use them only in cases of neutral people then you have to actually have neutral people to use them on. and transexuals are not neutral people. in fact, even saying that is really ignorant and pretty offensive. so i got really angry, and i probably should have brought up this point in class because i have friends who are at the very least questioning which sex they should have been assigned and to define them as something other than the gender they believe they are is revolting. also, i think it creates a huge problem when it destroys the ability of individuals to communicate with each other. why don’t feminists just create their own gender-free language where everyone is a ze and hir and then try to point out to all of those non-feminist zes some overwhelming political message using words that don’t actually exist in the english language. that’ll be a good way to get change to occur.
i, for one, do not support irrational behavior on the part of feminists.
ps. why don’t we get our head out of our ass and stop screaming about how suzie can’t be a boy scout and start writing some letters to real places of gender inequality? like whoa.