I’ll look up Kat Blaque—thanks for the recommendation!
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No disagreement there, and like I said, that was definitely not a good moment for me. Had there been another trans woman in the room, you’re quite right, I would have bowed out of the conversation.
Germaine Greer I find extremely angering. We are ultimately all on the same side. And the framework of radical feminism is not helpful when it comes to trans* issues.
Well, I think this is a definitional difference, to be fair, because I could just as well say that female = sex, not gender; woman/women/feminine = gender, and have it be equally ideologically true, right?
But what if you WANT to do it around food?
Well I guess that’s the thing for us—I was not happy with the idea at first but our photog couple (who are absolutely AMAZING and I love them to bits) pretty much take the same approach Jamie does—they frame it as “right, we want to know how you guys work and interact as a couple and we want you to know how WE work as…
And you’re . . . what? Probably some douchebag white guy who never even saw a non-Nazi swastika in his life until this popped up on Gawker and who misclicked his way onto Jezebel and decided to get into it with the first person who’d bite, I’ll bet.
Look, I’m Indian. I’m Hindu. I spend actually a surprising amount of my life being confronted with a symbol of MY ethnic and religious culture and being asked whether it makes US like the Nazis too. I’ve been out and out asked whether I hate Jewish people because my religion uses a Nazi symbol.
We’re doing a buffet lunch reception at our wedding rather than a plated lunch. Why is that tacky exactly?
May I ask (though you don’t need to respond) why you have to wait over two years to file papers?
It does have the Nazi flag right underneath though.
Question 1: Jain, Buddhist, and Hindu—all three religions use it with varying degrees of frequency across the subcontinent.
I mean, to me that just sounds like splitting hairs in order to avoid being wrong in your original statement.
Oh, I don’t particularly care about the fact that you called it tacky — that wasn’t what I was taking offense to, I was taking offense to the fact that they fucking painted OUR symbol while trying to be shitty neo-Nazis.
I thought I’d make my own thread to make this point because the embedded comments saying “this isn’t a swastika” are driving me a bit mad.
Because it IS a swastika, it’s just not a NAZI swastika.
It was just Deepavali this week, no chance everybody’s misunderstood a stupid expression of festivity, right . . . ?
It’s offensive to me as a Hindu because the decorative bits are actually part of our swastika design . . . the four dots between the prongs specifically, though I don’t know what the swirlies are on the tips. Like, for fuck’s sake it’s like they googled “swastika,” saw a proper Hindu one and decided that CLEARLY that…
I am loving this JCS reference . . .