Yes Transmen Teach me a Lesson Will Ya!

I'm highlighting this comment despite it being posted completely off topic:

Although I'm not sure what she means regarding my "power" and despite the rest of the comment not making a bit of sense, she does have one thing right, this blog is NOT for self hating females aka transmen. It is for females interested in loving themselves first and discussing, dissecting and dismantling misogyny and the gender straight jacket second.

So if none of those things are on your list if importances, then by all means move the fuck on!

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Cleaning/Cooking Commercials

Cleaning, cooking and childcare commercials are still predominately performed by females, despite the fact that nearly 70% of women work outside the home today. What kinds of early messages do you feel this sends to boy and girls about the gender straight jacket?

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The Childhood Humility of Feeling "Other"

Having been a horrifically shy kid, the social aspects of school were difficult in and of themselves. But not seeing myself in the girls I knew, the girls I saw or the idea of girl that was presented by hetero-patriarchal norms, boys were the only place I did see myself, only I knew I wasnt a boy.

So much of school groups and competitions were a constant dividing up or boys and girls or boys vs girls. Even going to the bathroom in grade school was a division of the sexes. I HATED bathroom time. Because it meant having to stand in the girls line where upon I felt nothing but pure and utter shame. In that line it was obvious what I was, unlike in the "rough area" where I was just another boy or on the football team or dodgeball team etc. Even in gym class when for three years in a row for 6 weeks we had to square dance, because there were a shortage of boys, I was the substitute boy.

But in class, I rarely escaped the division of boys/girls by teachers and I always felt ashamed in not doing so.  What were some of your experiences where you felt ashamed simply for being female??

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THIS POST HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TRANS PEOPLE OR THEIR EXPERIENCES-KEEP COMMENTS ON TOPIC OR THEY WILL BE REMOVED.

Dysphoria Does NOT Equal Trans-A Weekly Reminder

But being bombarded by some of these images can create a lifetime of dysphoria, that begins the moment we first open our eyes. In this space, I never existed and still dont.

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I blame the media for ignoring feminism in favour of makeup-(An Interesting Article)

Feminism seems so tiny today, so niche, of such little interest to the outside world. And yet it is needed...

A little from the article...

November will see the premiere of Pan Am on BBC2. It is a soft-focus drama series, bought from America, about the adventures of a group of Pan Am stewardesses in the 1960s. It is all big hair and pouting, with a preposterous photogenic-stewardess-as-CIA-operative subplot, to distract the viewer from the fact that Pan Am is all about big hair and pouting, a reductive and submissive fantasy, with working women as eye candy and, explicitly in the first episode, as sex aid. Even so, they are represented as empowered, because they are beautiful, and get on and off aeroplanes.

I mention this as last week, at the Fawcett Society's annual AGM, I pondered why the feminist movement seems so comprehensively to have stalled. Feminism seems so tiny today, so niche, of such little interest to the outside world and even to women. And yet it is needed; the facts are bewildering or depressing, depending on one's mental state. In the UK, the pay gap of 15.5% will not shift. When the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) polled 34,158 male and female executives in the private sector last year, they learned the average pay gap between men and women doing the same job is £10,031, and the average woman will, as such, be cheated out of £330,000 in her lifetime, which is a lot for a feminist, and also for a consumer.

The glass ceiling is still bulletproof; men outnumber women in parliament by four to one, and there are more millionaires than women in the cabinet (and it shows). Women who do make it into politics are mocked and debased; alongside Cameron's Cuties and Blair's Babes, we now have Millie's Fillies, a fine headline for the fact that there are now 13 women in the shadow cabinet, to Ed Miliband's credit. The cuts, as this newspaper has detailed, will affect women, who are the nation's carers, and who tend to work in the public sector, far more than men. Because childcare responsibilities still fall on women, women with children take low-paid, opportunity-free part-time work, and suffer economically and, presumably, spiritually.

Instead, the media acts as a marketing tentacle for the beauty and fashion industries – no friend to women, merely selling the lie that purchase is a feminist act, because, in the words of the L'Oreal slogan, "We're worth it". Yes we are, and that is why I do not dye my hair. In fact, shopping is the only feminist act still possible in the media world because they think consumerism is feminism; buy, and feel good about yourself, even as you get into debt for your trouble, and forget that actually you looked OK in your old clothes, with your old hair, and with your old vagina. It also, due to its emphasis on shopping, mistakes what a feminist is. Two current TV heroes, Mary Portas and Kirsty Allsop, could be interpreted as feminists, because they have both their own TV shows. In fact, they are not feminists, but saleswomen, as committed to female dissatisfaction – buy a house, buy a dress, buy anything – as anyone in sales.

Celebrity is no friend to feminism either, even if Angelina Jolie once made a statement that could be reasonably divined as feminist. (I have no idea if she did make such a statement. But it is possible.) Because she had to starve, sweat and be surgically enhanced to be in a position to make it and be heard. Sex and the City is an OK conduit for a discussion of feminism, because it contains shoes, without the Sex and the City peg, you will get nowhere. I suppose celebrity's contribution to feminism is: if you are hot enough you will be heard, but hurry up, because you won't be hot for long.

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How Body/Gender Dysphoria is "Treated"? And Why?

Since the American Psychiatric Association published its first edition of the DSM in 1952 and through all four editions, including the fifth edition due out in May of 2013, not a single MENTAL disorder has been treated by removing healthy BODY parts EXCEPT  body/gender dysphoric disorder. One might say lobotomies and/or similar "surgeries" have been performed since, but lobotomies were performed on brains found to be UNhealthy(rightly or wrongly so). There has been no such findings in the breasts/uteri/ovaries/penis's/testes that are standard removals for those suffering with body/gender issues.

That being stated, why do you feel the male medical machines is only removing/rearranging healthy body parts from individuals classified as suffering from a MENTAL disorder to relieve their suffering/dysphoria? Especially given that there isnt a single proven case that the removal of certain healthy body parts doesnt cure the patient of their dysphoria, as it returns again and again and again short to mid term?

Also why do you feel the male medical machine is targeting very specific body parts, when clearly every body part of the patient is either male or female?

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