Amazon.com: Women without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity

This book is really good and really shows you how the lack of class as a form of analysis (and a lack of acknowledgement that class comes with culture) absolutely destroys people’s sense of self and prevents social change

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‘Celebrity chav’: Fame, femininity and social class

All differences between genders save one

so far as they exist at all, are statistical rather than absolute, the only one that is not is that women understand themselves as women, men understand themselves as men, and people of other genders understand themselves as the gender they are (or in the case of agender people see themselves as not gendered)

It’s weird that Cthulhu is always referred to as he

Cause like it’s an incomprehensible monster god from beyond the stars, like the idea that they have sexes the way we do, let alone analogous concepts of gender… Is like “uhhh okay”

If there wasn’t something going on with lovecraft’s gender/sexuality

I’ll eat my 4th best hat.

I mean:
Everything about the thing on the doorstep
Him being about wandering around the west village at night and meeting a strange man
Dunwich Horror “but the real horror was below the waist”
The utter horror of sex

If boys need “boy” toys and girls need “girl” toys, like… how did society ever manage when kids were making do with unlabeled rocks and sticks that distinctly did not come in conveniently color coded pink and blue?

I’m going to have spare names in reserve for if one of my kids is trans.

“We planned for this contingency, and we decided on Nancy after your grandmother, you don’t have to use it if you don’t like it, but I figured you might want one we picked out, because like… naming their kids is a thing parents are supposed to do. Sorry we fucked up with the first one, that was our bad.”

Thinking about how conditional male privilege is at times, and how vulnerable men who violate the terms of it are.

I see the effects of that a lot at work. Transgressing against masculinity is a very scary thing and I totally have props for dudes who do.

That said then it’s all actually really complicated because like when a woman enters a masculinized field she’s scorned and made to work twice as hard, a man enters a feminized field and he’s welcomed by the women there with open arms and usually ends up getting paid more.

I feel like things with that are complicated.

I think I might finally have an idea of what gender does maybe

I think gender might be the thing which determines what gendered social messages you innately understand as about you. People may be told by others that another gender’s messages are about them, but left to their own devices they’ll receive the messages directed at the gender they are, and not the ones directed at genders they aren’t, of course people respond to these messages in any number of ways but they will receive them, just like people named Alice Smith may respond in any number of ways to a message addressed to them, but they will understand the message as addressed to them, but if people keep telling a person named Alice Smith that they’re actually named Mathilde Anderson they’ll do their best to respond to messages directed to Mathilde Anderson unless they have the support to insist they’re Alice Smith. I might be explaining this idea badly

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