Why don’t we get the really cool options for essays in classes that deal with gender and sex, especially English courses?

Like, why has not a single professor gone “Choose a character, switch their sex, and explain how their life would be different now that they are that sex. What options would they gain, or lose? What roles would they be obligated to fill? Would they still have the option to interact with the people they were friends with, and how would they be treated differently by those friends? Using context, quotes from the text, and other information, discuss differences in how the story may progress and what events would be possible as a result.”

I do realize that this would take whatever course it is into the realm of sociology instead of English, and there’s the whole question of gender and junk that would make it too sensitive a subject, but damn would that be a cool question to ramble about.

misssynph:

Hello, People of Tumblr! 

My name is Zina and I’m a history major in my last year. I’m doing an independent study project with my school’s history department that is going to revolve around gender and comic books (mainly superheroes) and I would love your help!

The link above is a nine question long survey on comic books and gender. It doesn’t ask for your name or any identifying information and instead asks questions about gender to set up demographics and information on who prefers what for my professor who is helping me come up with my thesis.

I would appreciate it greatly if everyone that sees this link that is interested in comics take the chance to reblog it and answer the questions for me.

If you have any questions (about the survey or the paper itself), my ask is always open and my email is listed in my about me.

Thank you very much in advance and feel free to share this survey with people both on and off tumblr as I want to get a varied response.

gunsandwwands:

electricbreeze:

The Student Non-Discrimination Act, or SNDA (pronounced “Senda”), is a bill that that would prohibit public schools from discriminating against students on the bias of actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identification.

It would, for example:
—Allow same-sex couples to go to prom
—Allow all LGBTs to take part in any/all extra curricular activities
—Allow students of the same sex to show public displays of affection without getting harassed or punished. 

It would also punish any teacher that does not do anything to stop the harassment/bullying of an LGBT student. 
 

Note that all schools that violate this law would lose federal funding and would be allowed to be sued by the students against whom they discriminated. 

As a result of this, schools would become a much more efficient place of learning (not to mention much, much safer) for all LGBT students. 
 
To those of you who are wondering “So what? What can I do to help? It’s just a bill”, please know that there is a great deal of things you can do to help turn this bill into a law.

First and foremost, contact your senator and/or representative and tell them that you would like them to support the Student Non-Discrimination Act (H.R 998/S. 555), and that equal rights are not equal until they are given to everybody. Do whatever it takes—call, email, even visit they’re office if your’e in DC (if you don’t talk to the Representative directly, you will at least be able to talk to a staff member who will inform them of your concern).  

Please note that it doesn’t take a myriad of phone calls/emails for Congress to take note of what the people want; a couple dozen phone calls or emails a day is all it takes for an issue to get noticed. 

Secondly, I will be going, with a couple of other students, to Congress again to give speeches to Senators and Representatives about this bill sometime in early June. If you have anything you would like me to include in these speeches (a personal story, a question for your representative, a request, etc), please let me know via the submission box on my blog. 

Finally, please inform everyone you know about this bill. Reblog, like, tell your friends… do everything you can to get this bill known and passed.  LGBT students deserve just as much respect as any other student, and we must make this bill known.

To find/contact your senator: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

For more information on SNDA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Non-Discrimination_Act

Come on guys, please spread the word. This is a very good post, and as someone who strongly supports equal rights for everyone, I’m all for this.

If anything, please reblog it to spread the word. It would really mean a lot to..well anyone of the LGBTQ community, really. 

lgbtadvocate:

COME ON TUMBLR. 

WE CAN DO THIS. 

http://yahoo.com

rythos:

fluiddragonfly:

The Winnipeg Free Press is having a poll asking whether Universities should have gender neutral wash rooms. 

Currently 73% saying no

Please scroll down the page and vote yes. 

Currently at:
Yes
61% (6141 votes)

WAY TO GO TUMBLR! Let’s sweep it even FURTHER!

Direct Link Here? ( I hope it works)

Okay, can I just say something?

I love Soul Eater. It has its good and bad points just like any other anime/manga series, but I like it.

But the fans sometimes bother me. T: Chrona have never been pinned down as having any gender or sex- the only reason they made it a “he” in the US version is because we have no androgynous way to refer to someone in English, and it would’ve been too bulky to refer to it as “that child” like they do in some parts of the original Japanese.

So, Chrona does not yet have a sex. But the gender/sex wars with him/her/it really, really bother me. Anything’s a possibility, so I love art of both takes on the character. But I REALLY hate it when those who draw or talk about Chrona in one of those two sexes utterly rejects the possibility that he/she/it could be the other one. T: To the point of escalating into ridiculous arguments.

The creator’s trolling us by not saying what sex or gender Chrona is. Accept that and let’s move on, please. ;;;;

Yesterday I actually wore a dress, which for me is being ultra-feminine even without jewelery or makeup. (Neither of which I wore.)

So which one do you prefer? XD Just curious.

So, we had a drag ball tonight at my college. XD I semi-bound my boobs and gathered all my hair into my hat. I didn’t win, but going and seeing all those boys in drag (and girls, actually) was super fun. XD

So. I’m cruising FB to see whose birthday it is today, and I saw a post from a woman that stopped me in my tracks. This woman, who will henceforth be known as “Grey,” is someone who graduated with my mother from High School and who I have known most of my life. She is stepmother to a childhood friend of mine (represented by a light green later on, though only once), though he lives out in Colorado most of the year, and I know her moderately well. Or, thought I did.

This particular post was about how she had seen a guy in a woman’s lingerie section and hoped that “he wasn’t a freak like a transvestite.” Of course, me being me, I couldn’t let this stand. I replied rather calmly, saying that you can’t really judge people overall like that, and that she should really find out more about them before calling them freaks. She proceeded to say worse and worse things about them until I posted this status below.

I WAS a smartass, I will say that much. And I will say that, for the following dialogue and this, I did not handle myself as professionally as I should have. But bear in mind this is a woman who I grew up with- someone I trusted, someone I liked- and I felt absolutely betrayed by her. Not only that, but she posts a threat to my interaction with my childhood friend’s entire FAMILY, all of whom I am friends with.

Here is the message she sent me, and my replies. She is grey, and I am blue (duh. XP)

I did not handle myself as well as I should have, and I do not know what this argument will mean for my future interactions with my childhood friend and his family. But I said what I wanted to say, and I suppose that’s all I COULD do.

So, I’m taking notes for another student for my Business class, and was going through the Diversity section when I noticed a description of primary characteristics that caught my eye.

“… age, gender, race, ethnicity, abilities, and sexual orientation represent primary characteristics of diversity which are inborn and cannot be changed.”

This is both a good and bad sign. The fact that they listed gender as one of the things that cannot be changed is incorrect, because gender is a social construct and not a physical thing, unlike a person’s sex. But the fact that it lists sexual orientation as something unchangeable, and didn’t refer to it as a “lifestyle” or other bullshit phrases I keep hearing, makes it pretty cool. :)

… though why they didn’t add other physical characteristics like weight to the list is odd. Because it is a factor in whether or not people are hired.