It’s really pathetic how for so many people a revolutionary attitude to gender is all about repeating idiotic and offensive stereotypes:
What a stupid piece of garbage this weird person is. I’m getting honestly tired seeing one dick with a prick after another tell me how I’m not a woman because I don’t correspond to his collection of ridiculous stereotypes.
This worthless ass-wipe will never even begin to imagine what it means to be discriminated in the workplace because of the assumption that having a uterus makes you “emotional, intuitive, boy-crazy, and fickle”, so he can convince himself that he knows all about women since he’s memorized that women are “submissive” by nature.
It’s like one can never get far enough from some guy who wants to lecture one on how to be a “proper” woman.
Clarissa's Blog 
“emotional, intuitive, boy-crazy, and fickle”
Wow. He actually said this. Fickle. A feminine quality.
If some republican leader said this, we’d have a full-blown controversy by now. But this is a gay man, writing in the most influential progressive gay magazine (an ‘ally’ in other words), so it’s OK. Jesus fucking christ.
LikeLike
\ Wow. He actually said this. Fickle. A feminine quality.
If some republican leader said this, we’d have a full-blown controversy by now.
It’s
1) (partly) humorous, tongue-in-cheek
AND
2) it’s clear he talks about stereotypes, not what he believes women are in reality.
I checked the article and immediately after using the word “fickle”, he writes:
“But like a lot of people, I also occupy the stereotypes of both male and female.”
Fickle is a negative stereotype of women, so I don’t see what he did wrong. He doesn’t “lecture one on how to be a “proper” woman.” On the contrary, he is for breaking gender stereotypes.
LikeLike
“(partly) humorous, tongue-in-cheek”
I’m seriously not seeing the difference between a German saying “Sometimes I’m cheap and sly like a Jew” and the linked excretion.
LikeLike
Feminine quality or not, fickle is not exactly a positive character trait. Who walks around and basically denigrates oneself like this?
LikeLike
“Who walks around and basically denigrates oneself like this?”
LikeLike
I have a manly inability to find my keys in front of me and a womanly inability to navigate directions. I think fractals are gender neutral and puppies are overrated. Clearly I’m some sort of Judith Butler gender mutant.
LikeLike
This is what happens when sex and gender are confused… and people are cocooned away too much by helicopter parents. Individuals see the different ways they personally don’t conform to their culture’s gender stereotypes and think they’ve discovered America (as they say in Poland) and start creating weird narratives about what special little snowflakes they are.
LikeLike
Exactly. The whole point of the piece is that he thinks he has certain traits of character. Obviously there’s nothing newsworthy about it, so he couches this very mundane fact of existence in the fashionable gender – speak. And that’s just pathetic. Of course, finding a real issue to write about is too much work, so these fluff pieces proliferate.
LikeLike