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The rhetorical power of renaming
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Amusing (if slightly vulgar) video: Dan Savage’s New Threat to Rick Santorum: If Rick Santorum runs for President on an anti-gay platform, Dan Savage will have no choice but to redefine his first name now, too.
Read More“How to Be a Man” (Tales of Mere Existence)
I just came across this video, which uses an interesting animation-like technique to convey a message about being a man.
Read More“Judith Butler 101: One Is Not Born a Queer Theorist, One Becomes One”
This post on a popular lesbian culture blog does a nice job of expressing the difference between sex and gender as first articulated by Judith Butler. The author shows particularly good rhetorical awareness by using humor and cute photos as well as by anticipating where readers might get stuck and helping them through it. Judith Butler 101: One Is Not …
Read MoreHow Fairy Tales Really End
Found these on the web and thought those of you wrote about Disney movies might find them amusing. The photos are by Dina Goldstein and you can see her complete collection at the Fallen Princesses web site. Cinderella Snow White
Read MoreBad Questions to Ask a Transsexual
Humorous video by transsexual activist, Calpernia Addams:
Read MoreImage definition of “girl” on Google
I was interested to see what the first picture would be when I typed in the word “girl” into Google. As it was, the first image that came up was not of a girl at all but rather the show Gossip Girl, and its main characters. The “girls” in the show are hardly girls at all in this ad, and …
Read MoreBoys will be girls (spoof)
BOYS will be GIRLS: Spoof on the assumed gender roles and how the opposite gender sees the other. Offensive to some, funny to others!
Read MoreNew meaning of “throw like a girl”!
Interesting story of a girl who is challenging gender norms in baseball: Chelsea Baker
Read MoreHow Women Should Act
Questions: (1) Briefly describe the commercial or scene from a TV show. Include a link if the source is available online. This scene is about women and how they should act around men. It is meant to be funny and the audience is laughing but in reality, to some, it is not funny because it is true in everyday life. …
Read MoreThe MANgina Monologues (A One Trans Show) starring Riki Wilchins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82UU5JE12ZM
Read MoreGenderVision: Sex and Gender
Description of this video from the GenderVision web site: Nancy Nangeroni and Gordene MacKenzie speak candidly with their guest, medical sociologist, author and intersex activist Esther Morris Leidolf, about bodies and gender that differs from cultural expectations. Esther observes that intersex is more common than cystic fibrosis and Down syndrome combined. Their lively conversation explores the “medical normalization” of intersex …
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