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Passage of time in QC...
valkygrrl:
--- Quote from: AprilArcus on 24 Oct 2014, 19:21 ---
--- Quote from: valkygrrl on 24 Oct 2014, 19:00 ---Her average day would be like the forums here where it comes up in every conversation about her, overshadowing the rest of her _character_.
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It wouldn't, in a community like Tai's, whence the somewhat confusing dissonance.
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Really? Who brought up her transition?
--- Quote from: AprilArcus on 24 Oct 2014, 19:11 ---
It's not so much a matter of screaming about it for the sake of screaming about it. Being in a community of trans people (and well educated cis allies)
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By well-educated non-trans--I won't use THAT word--allies. You mean those who believe that gender is something that's innate rather than something that's imposed by the patriarchy.
Edit: fixed a typo
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: valkygrrl on 24 Oct 2014, 19:31 ---non-trans--I won't use THAT word
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You mean the word that specifically means "non-trans"?
Carl-E:
Yeah, that one. I hear it's gaining a stigma all its own!
valkygrrl:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 24 Oct 2014, 19:34 ---
--- Quote from: valkygrrl on 24 Oct 2014, 19:31 ---non-trans--I won't use THAT word
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You mean the word that specifically means "non-trans"?
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The word isn't really consistent with a gender critical world view.
http://liberationcollective.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/a-feminist-critique-of-cisgender/
AprilArcus:
--- Quote from: valkygrrl on 24 Oct 2014, 19:31 ---Really? Who brought up her transition?
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What I'm trying to say is that in a community of free-loving liberal arts queers like Tai's, Claire's gender history would not be a big deal and that she could be as out as she cared to be without it being likely to change the way anybody viewed her. She could basically assume that everyone would be as chill about it as Marten has been, because the community would be vigilant about educating or ejecting the exceptions before she encountered them, and would circle the wagons around her if push came to shove.
This is what being at a small liberal arts school in 2014 is like. It's not quite what being at a small liberal arts school in 2006 was like. Claire acts more like it's 2006 than 2014, which Jeph's comment makes sense of.
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