Quote from: lilacwoman on December 18, 2011, 02:54:31 AM
Sunday breakfast prog is mentor showing single people how to get social and find a partner.
Today is divorced mother in London who has been wearing shapeless black clothes with trousers, loads of earclips and very unfem and no dates for years.
mentor takes her shopping and forces her into pretty colourful skirts and clothes with low necklines, adds jewellery, cuts the hair shorter and adds blonde streaks, make up, perfume! and jewellery.
Takes her out and coaches her on how to speak to men and use her (dare I say it on Susans?) natural femininity and flirtyness.
her female friends all say she is now very chatty about clothes and appearance and guys say she is looking better now she is out of hte dull blcak stuff.
end of six week sshe is out on a dinner date with a lovely guy and really enjoying herself. table has secret cameras focussed on it to monitor progress and she has a button under table to turn cameras off if she feels confident the rest of the date is going well.
Finishes off with further date with the guy who likes her very much.
Binaries have fun.
So much of the traditional socialising places in UK have shut down that many folk just don't learn social skills and meet really nice people.
You keep using this word: "binarism".
I don't think it means what you think it means.
Watch this:
Quote from: lilacwoman on December 18, 2011, 04:32:51 AM
coffee break time and next Look Good Naked has gay guy with a bunch of GGs who all hide bodies in shapeless stuff. so he has to take them to mall and make them wear pretty stuff and they love it...shows them how to dress to fit their shapes regardless of what weight, shape, size they are.
One says she'd never wear a belt so he makes her and she is delighted to see how good she looks.
duno why fashion and looking good became such a no-no for UK GGs that lots of high street fashion shops have shutdown.
maybe because so many soaps have miserable couch pototo GGs living with slummy couch potato GMs? Strange.
program always ends with the women happy to strut their stuff in bra and knix down a catwalk put in local mall with thousand folk watching.
This is sexism. It's promoting the adherence of women to sexist categories of appearance and compliance to inappropriately gendered roles (with the implication that women who do not adhere to these ideals are inherently inferior).
This is also transphobia. Why does it matter that these "girls" (this is sexist) are "genetic"? How is this at all relevant? How would it be any different if these women were trans as opposed to being cis?
"Fashion" is not bad. Requiring that women adhere to narrowly and strictly defined standards of beauty is bad.
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Now let's look at binarism. Binarism is the concept that stable, rigid categorical classifications of thought can be used to examine and distinguish the opposing poles of a dichotomous relationship. When we consider gender binarism, we can investigate its close cousin oppositional sexism, the idea that male and female are strictly defined, mutually exclusive categories that have their own exclusive sets of attributes. This is not okay. This is, first off, offensive and constitutes the erasure of anyone who identifies outside the binary or characterizes their gender expression as androgynous or non-binary.
Note that this
does not mean that people are not permitted to identify at the male and female poles of the gender spectrum. It just means that you aren't erasing non-binary people every time you talk about your own gender.
