The part in Fierce and Demanding that talked about MTFs and FTMs going through absolutely shitty medical never ending pits of intervention reminded me of a class I took last quarter. It was called Mental Illnesses in Movies and I took it as an honors seminar. In it, we saw and talked about almost every single thing mentioned by the people in the document. We talked for a short period of time about how homosexuality was considered a sickness or a disease and how shock therapy and mental institutions were common remedies. In One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, I think we were talking about how one of the characters was gay and how they would have been put in an institution. I hated the end of the movie, if you've seen it and know what I mean. I don't even want to think about how many "queer" people unwillingly underwent lobotomies. It's just another fucked up day in the history of medicine.
I liked all the visuals that were in this one. I had to tilt my head a few times to read things, but I didn't mind at all. You definitely mentioned all of that stuff in class. The French night performer looks pretty sexy :) A lot of t was very interesting. I was surprised that Jorgenson didn't mind her film being a little more sexualized, though.
Go UCLA! It's pretty cool that we were involved in a positive way for the most part. Even if they were doing it just for the sake of research, which they may or may not have, I smiled at their work. I know why have an LGBT Resouces Center and office, but do we still have the gender clinic thing? That would be an interesting place to check out and work with. I doubt it though since most gender issues have enough information and attention, for the most part.
How did pre-transitioned men and women find out about transgender surgeries? How did they find doctors without the internet??? You can't exactly make phone calls, if you can even find numbers to offices, for various doctors and ask them bout something like that. Who do you even go to to find out information about this? Is it some underground information network? At that time in history, you had to have needed connections to find that type of stuff. Also, people who flew all the way to America, Europe, Mexico, or whatever country from whatever country that were refused to be given surgery for stupid reasons is a depressing read. They used all that money to go up there just to get to hear the doc is saying no? That fucking sucks.
Holy shit. That doctor tried to put out a fucking cigarette on her? What the hell???? Yeah he sure fucking did "have problems of his own". Trying to kiss her to see a reaction too was way out of bounds both in terms of personal space and professionalism. Great going, medical rules and regulations. Good job.
After reading about some of the failed surgeries, I got distracted while reading about other stuff in the article. I was and still am tempted to look up pictures of these types of things too, but I'll probably be eating again soon, so that may not be the best idea. The account of horrible the pain doesn't sound fun. I don't think that there is anything that I want so badly in my life that I would go through pain like that. I have no pain tolerance in the first place. Post-operative individuals are brave and strong individuals with an unwaiverable dedication and desire to make themselves happier in life, and that is something I can respect to an extreme extent.
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I think one of the reasons that these scientists and homophobic people can't find evidence of "homosexuality" in the Native American cultures is because homosexuality is really a Christian based term. The entire "evil" connotation given to it was because of Christian religions that felt superiority and believed that they had a divine hand to say what they thought was the word of "god". I just feel like the entire idea of homosexuality wouldn't fucking existent if it wasn't for Christians and their Bible. I have so much more I could go on to rant about my distaste for that, but my point is that book and the stuck up people in this world that follow it (or other texts that are based on it and follow its example) are the only people who have a need to define homosexuality. The reason they didn't find it in Native American tribes termed as homosexuality or some form of the same was because they didn't have some concrete divine law that said marriage (once again a very and entirely religious concept in the details and roots) was between a man and a woman. Instead, it was seen as gender role. When I took American Indian Studies in my fall quarter, we read about and learned about some tries and their view of what we call homosexuality. To the one tribe ( I can't remember the name of), love was love and it was a spiritual blessing. If a woman loved a woman, it was even more beautiful and blessed. In terms of what I'm reading, it seems to be "transsexuality", once again based on our terminology.
Also, holy shit. How does this guy have so much research on this stuff? I couldn't find anything when I was writing my papers for that American Indian Studies class. He has so much...
I was talking on Skype with my friend about joining a ranked team in League of Legends called "The Butthold Pirates" right when I got to the last paragraph on page 156 where it said "///rubber cocks or offering up their buttholes." Well then.
That entire paragraph actually feels completely different than the rest of this paper. When the hell did the tone and diction backflip out? It sounds like a movie trailer.
"Living... in an era... of safer sex *SOUND EFFECT* in which dildo or rubber-covered cocks are prescribed..." and so on. By rubber-covered cock, does he mean condoms or dildos? I don't think there is literally a dick inside a rubber dick. He sounds really passive aggressive about this part, or at least I feel like that. "Offering up their buttholes" sounds so weird. Wow. Everything after that seems kind of like gay misogynistic too. Maybe he's just sarcastic to mock other people?
Anyway, that was a tedious read when it came to having my level of an attention span.
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