Hey @ Wikipedia, if you could not list a trans person’s deadname right after their name that would be great.
Hey @ literally every piece of media in the universe you too
Excellent news! Editors who retain deadnames in articles are violating Wikipedia’s Gender Identity guidelines, at least implicitly. You are fully empowered to, and absolutely should, remove any deadname you find on Wikipedia. Editors who tell you otherwise are simply incorrect, and you should refer them to the relevant entry in the Wikipedia Manual of Style.
I want men to try and imagine going about your day–working, running, hiking, whatever–and not being allowed to wear pants under threats of violence or total social and economic exclusion.
That’s the kind of irrationally violent and controlling behaviour women have been up against.
Also for anyone who thinks it’s easy for women to be gender non conforming because we can wear pants.
The only reason we can is because we fought tooth and nail for the right to! Any rights we take for granted today we’re the result of a prolonged, bitter battle fought by our predecessors for every inch of territory gained. Never forget that.
Title IX (1972) declared that girls could not be required to wear skirts to school.
Women who were United States senators were not allowed to wear trousers on the Senate floor until 1993, after senators Barbara Mikulski and Carol Moseley Braun wore them in protest, which encouraged female staff members to do likewise.
This was never given to us. Women have had to fight just to be able to wear pants. Women who are still alive remember having to wear skirts to school, even in the dead of winter, when it was so cold that just having a layer of tights between them and the elements was downright dangerous. Women who remember not even being allowed to wear pants under their skirts, for no other reason than they were female.
So don’t talk about women wearing pants being gender nonconforming like it’s easy. It’s only less difficult now because your foremothers refused to comply.
My mother spent her entire school career up until high school having to wear skirts, no matter how horrible the New England winters got, because she was forbidden to do otherwise. There were times when the weather was bad where my grandmother kept her home rather than make her walk to and from the bus in a skirt.
They rebroadcast a few old interviews with Mary Tyler Moore, and in them she addressed the pants issue. There was a strict limit on what kind of pants she could wear (hence, always Capri pants, nothing masculine), and to use her words, how much cupping the pants could show. A censor would look at every outfit when she came out on stage, and if the pants cupped her buttocks too much, defining them rather than hiding them, then she had to get another pair.
A prime example of how gender is socially enforced.
I remember a prolonged battle at primary school, with petitions and numerous near riotous PTA meetings before girls were allowed to wear trousers. In the late 1990s/early 2000s. In Scotland. A country which now (rightly, for the most part) prides itself on its progressiveness. Please don’t ever take these things for granted, and don’t assume that it’s only far flung places that you have nothing in common with that took so long to catch up. We’re all still fighting, little by little, for every apparently trivial victory that mounts up until we can reach the non-trivial ones. And we can’t afford to stop.
At my private Catholic high school, girls were only given the green light to wear pants the year before I began attending.
In 1992.
Yeah, 1991, forced to wear dresses in school. Got detention once because after school was over while waiting for my ride outside I took off the dress that was over my button down shirt and normal-kids-shorts-length shorts because it was Louisiana degrees outside and I was 7.
Teachers were forced to wear skirts for years. And heels. My mother’s feet are still high heel shaped when she takes off her shoes. She had to wear a skirt till I was well into junior high.
The real gen z aesthetic is having a vague memory of Maisy mouse in the back of your head that you’ve completely forgotten about until you see a picture of her and you’re suddenly teleported back to 1999
a jewish kid was murdered by a nazi last week in california and almost none of the articles about it are mentioning that he was jewish or that his murderer was a nazi
he was taken into the woods by someone he thought was a friend and killed. hits pretty close to home bc multiple relatives of mine, including my great-great-grandfather, were taken into the woods by their own neighbors and killed during the holocaust
I know there are a lot of jokes about the _ cinematic universe but barbie really did have a cinematic universe and the mcu is nothing compared to the bcu
there are, as of now, about 6 women who are main characters in the mcu. barbie in the 12 dancing princesses ALONE has, you guessed right, double that number
re: clark county being killed by indigenous people on remote island. do you guys hear yourselves? you’re fucking scary. people can be incredibly stupid but they don’t deserve death. “he got what he deserved” equates to sentencing someone to death for being a dickhead. look, i’m not justifying what he did, because that was idiotic and dangerous, but i’m also not celebrating his death like it was justified.
Since you almost quoted me, let me say a few things.
I’ve got my own suggestions on what that guy does not deserve:
He does not deserve fame. Mentioning him or his place of origin but failing to name the “remote island” or the tribe, the Sentinelese, whose very existence he threatened, is wrong on a lot of levels which I will not touch upon here right now (think: privilege). That guy did what he did to achieve what? To snap a few photos and brag about exactly what accomplishment? For a few likes and reblogs? He put these utterly narcissistic motives of his above the well-being and lives of a group of humans who very clearly not consented to that bullshit. This behavior does not deserve positive acknowledgement of any kind lest that inspire others to follow in his steps.
He does not deserve mitigation on grounds of stupidity. He wasn’t just some average “dickhead” playing a silly college prank that went awry. No — he traveled halfway around the globe to pull this off and he planned it. This is not some spontaneous brain fart. It was done in deliberation. He was not stupid. He was a selfish, reckless entitled asshole who did not care about the consequences of his actions to others and who probably thought that he would not be faced with consequences himself. That is arrogance, not ignorance and must nor be excused as the latter.
He does not deserve pity. He chose his fate. He had been warned, he knew exactly it was forbidden, and he knew the people could eventually kill him and, worse, that he (or: the germ cocktail he’s carrying along with himself) poses a severe threat to their existence and that the restrictions were put into place to protect them. Nevertheless, he decided to repeatedly trespass there against very clear laws and warnings and even despite being shot at. What he did was extremely selfish, idiotic and reckless and it is in no way on a comparable level to sneaking into a football game without paying or disregarding the dress code of some religious event. Had he gotten killed while trying those, I would definitely agree that his death should have been avoided by all means. Yet I do believe that there was ultimately no other way to prevent this asshole from repeatedly attempting to disrupt that sanctuary on Sentinel island.
He does not deserve benefit of the doubt. There is no doubt here: He went to a dangerous place knowingly and he recklessly risked eradicating a fragile and unique population who have no immunity whatsoever against any diseases he is likely bound to introduce to them. I do neither know nor care whether the Sentinelese have a concept of “infectious diseases” or not. They have been showing for years, centuries even, that they do not wish to be contacted by outsiders. They used the only defense against intrusions available to them and I strongly believe that they had every right to do so.
I am not celebrating that asshole’s death. I am relieved the Sentinelese are safe from him.
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