den heter gen-DER
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cimoreneone of the balconies across the highway from us--clearly visible from our kitchen window--has a full-size rainbow gay pride flag hanging in it. it's on the third floor and one of six balconies on a very pretty building, and anyway, i keep drifting into the kitchen to look across at it, because it makes me really happy.
i want a gay pride flag! or a gay pride... something (other than daisy dukes, which are in alabama anyway) (and my gay pride sarong, which i use as a scarf like every single day, but that unfortunately means you can't detect the whole rainbow at once, which means the GAY PRIDE intent is, i fear, not completely explicit).
anyone else? does the pride flag give you a warm, happy glow?
also, today in sociology there was a question about sex & gender (rather, someone wanted sldl to recap his entire two-hour lecture on the subject from last month--*eyeroll*) and the elder professor (the department chair, not sldl) chimed in to say "jag var just i sverige och jag märkte att ordet 'gender' liksom i engelska har börjat används."
(this is even though swedish actually has its own word for "gender", "genus". but it's not a very PC language, and people tend to still say sex when they mean gender, or to talk about "biological" and "social" sex, so perhaps it's felt the terms are too fuzzy.)
she paused. "den heter 'gen-DER'," she added, and the whole auditorium burst into laughter, because, folks, there is nothing cuter than swedish people's accents. and seriously, her impression was quite good. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wax_jism: we should go to sweden! me: okay!)
i want a gay pride flag! or a gay pride... something (other than daisy dukes, which are in alabama anyway) (and my gay pride sarong, which i use as a scarf like every single day, but that unfortunately means you can't detect the whole rainbow at once, which means the GAY PRIDE intent is, i fear, not completely explicit).
anyone else? does the pride flag give you a warm, happy glow?
also, today in sociology there was a question about sex & gender (rather, someone wanted sldl to recap his entire two-hour lecture on the subject from last month--*eyeroll*) and the elder professor (the department chair, not sldl) chimed in to say "jag var just i sverige och jag märkte att ordet 'gender' liksom i engelska har börjat används."
(this is even though swedish actually has its own word for "gender", "genus". but it's not a very PC language, and people tend to still say sex when they mean gender, or to talk about "biological" and "social" sex, so perhaps it's felt the terms are too fuzzy.)
she paused. "den heter 'gen-DER'," she added, and the whole auditorium burst into laughter, because, folks, there is nothing cuter than swedish people's accents. and seriously, her impression was quite good. (
wax_jism: we should go to sweden! me: okay!)
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Date: 25 Oct 2005 11:26 pm (UTC)And how!
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Date: 25 Oct 2005 11:29 pm (UTC)gay
Date: 25 Oct 2005 11:58 pm (UTC)hotcool, I cannot bear it.I like seeing gay pride flags/stickers/pins/necklaces/etc, but I no longer display one on my car. Partly, I feel an outsider to the queer community. Also, I drove cross-country a few years ago, and I never replaced the gay pride sticker that fell off during that time. I'm a really lazy activist, I am.
Re: gay
Date: 27 Oct 2005 05:38 pm (UTC)i don't feel *in* the queer community in any active sense, but i do feel a sense of belonging with the group anyway.
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Date: 26 Oct 2005 04:02 pm (UTC)