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  • ashinadash [she/her]
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    7 months ago
    haha...

    ...okay that's really strange, huh. That's not a definition I've ever heard of in my life and it doesn't make any sense to me, not a word of it. So needlessly complicated and weird, thank fuck I was not on trans internet in 2007 because wtf.

    I see, are there really "political genderqueers"? Huh, now I don't understand anything anymore blob-no-thoughts

    Is... the entire book steeped in ridiculous crusty terminology like this? A crisis, I wonder if I read Gender Outlaw wrong by not having this bizarro definition of "transgender" in mind. Maybe I am a lib.

    • good_girl [she/her, they/them]
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      7 months ago
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      I see, are there really "political genderqueers"?

      I imagine that there were at the time in the same way there were political lesbians. Their existence would connect back with subversivism and the desire to 'break the gender binary'.

      Is... the entire book steeped in ridiculous crusty terminology like this?

      Unfortunately it's definitely spread throughout the book, but Serano does well to front-load the definitions. She goes into it a bit in the 2nd editions preface.

      While the major themes that I forward in Whipping Girl remain just as vital and relevant today as they were when I was first writing the book, some of the specific descriptions and details will surely seem increasingly dated as time marches on. So in this preface to the second edition, I want to place the book in historical context, as it most certainly was a reaction to what was happening in society, and within activist and academic circles, during the early-to-mid aughts (or “the zeros,” as I prefer to call the first decade of this millennium). While a decade is not a huge amount of time in the grand scheme of things, it certainly feels like a lifetime ago when it comes to public understandings and discussions about transgender people.

      http://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2016/04/excerpt-from-whipping-girl-second.html

      • ashinadash [she/her]
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        7 months ago
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        I'll make sure to snag the second edition then, huh... these weirdo definitions are all new to me.

        • good_girl [she/her, they/them]
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          7 months ago
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          There's actually a third edition now! It just came out last month and she included an extended afterword where she goes into the "basic biology" argument as well as the topic of "trans grooming."

          • ashinadash [she/her]
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            7 months ago
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            Oh awesome, very nice, an update for new kinds of suck!