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who called?
Jul. 26th, 2006 01:50 amWoke up around 12:30 tonight, wide awake but not in stress or panic mode, and not from a dream or external stimulus I can recall. I'm just... awake. Who put in the wakeup call, and why?
Jul. 26th, 2006
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Jul. 26th, 2006 07:19 amI tried getting in touch with a jokingly assigned personification last night, not without some trepidation, with interesting results. The results I could tell were in the 'maybe/probably' range; I may never know if there were other results.
anti-trans hour in reruns!
Jul. 26th, 2006 01:04 pmSo 8:00-9:00 was a pretty unfriendly hour of network tv watching last night.
Fox replayed House: Skin Deep.
House uncovers a startling secret when he treats a teenage supermodel for heroin addiction.
The secret? She's technically male with a birth defect that makes her immune to testoterone, thus leading to her "extra feminine" appearance. The episode closes with House saying, "The ultimate woman is a man". Nice.
UPN replayed Veronica Mars: Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough, in which one character hires a trans prostitute to have sex with his brother, as a "joke". Naturally, the brother is repulsed, and the trans prostitute is of course othered.
I suppose, if I were an appropriately grateful transgendered person, I should be happy at the scraps of media attention, but you know what? I'm not, so no thanks, assholes.
Fox replayed House: Skin Deep.
House uncovers a startling secret when he treats a teenage supermodel for heroin addiction.
The secret? She's technically male with a birth defect that makes her immune to testoterone, thus leading to her "extra feminine" appearance. The episode closes with House saying, "The ultimate woman is a man". Nice.
UPN replayed Veronica Mars: Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough, in which one character hires a trans prostitute to have sex with his brother, as a "joke". Naturally, the brother is repulsed, and the trans prostitute is of course othered.
I suppose, if I were an appropriately grateful transgendered person, I should be happy at the scraps of media attention, but you know what? I'm not, so no thanks, assholes.
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Jul. 26th, 2006 02:00 pmLack of sleep makes me languidly nonlinear, as though my connection to my world takes primacy over my connection to the world of others.
Stepping out into the company of friends today was such a pleasant shock as to almost bring me to tears, the joy of reconnection made legible by the realization of preceeding absence. This is where I should be, I thought, and smiled.
Stepping out into the company of friends today was such a pleasant shock as to almost bring me to tears, the joy of reconnection made legible by the realization of preceeding absence. This is where I should be, I thought, and smiled.
and another thing
Jul. 26th, 2006 03:23 pmWhy is it that almost every time transpeople are being talked about, the terms are "transmen/transwomen"? There are others, those of us who are trans(gendered), but who aren't "-men" or "-women". Is it possible to use the prefix without being alienating, either those of us who aren't of the binary, or those who are "-men" or "-women"? (From my perspective, the near ubiquity of prefix + binary term means I'm transgressed (ha) against more often than not, oftentimes by the well meaning. Maybe I'm just bitching, but damn, I get tired of it.)
