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The Facebook is Sexist

Started by Shana A, August 31, 2008, 07:21:08 AM

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Shana A

The Facebook is Sexist
By JeanDesiree (Chief Contributor)

http://www.collegeotr.com/wesleyan_university/the_facebook_is_sexist_11054

Created: 08/31/2008    03:44 AM

Y'all know I'm transgender, right? Genderqueer, trans, whatever you feel comfortable with. I'm comfortable. But other people, they're just not that comfortable. I'll put it simply: I'm just plain queer all over the place. I'm queer in more ways than one. Certainly in more ways than I'll divulge publicly. And yet, despite being born with a latent intersex status, I have to check boxes that read M or F, just like the rest of you upstanding homo sapiens. I usually go 50/50 unless there's risk of prosecution involved. And because we live in a heteronormative society with some serious binary gender baggage, there usually is.

But, I've had enough! Why can't "social utility" services like the Facebook and Myspace let me be the genderqueer that I am? Why do I confuse the Facebook so?
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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