Comments on: building stereotypes

By: nexy

nexy — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:25:41 +0000

thanks for that link, autumn. what a great post!

By: Autumn Sandeen

Autumn Sandeen — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:42:48 +0000

I found another post today that talks about gender identity and stereotypes in an interesting way:

The author talks about how everything baby now seems to have a gender component to it, even before the baby is aware of his or her own gender identity.

The pictures of pink car and bouncy seats were especially enlightening towards how much differences between males and females are emphasized and enforced by society, and just how early these are emphasized and enforced.

By: sabrinastar

sabrinastar — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:08:48 +0000

I don’t think we can reach the crowd who hangs around Heart’s blog. She is articulate and comes across as being just conciliatory enough to not be directly offputting. But she rewards and subtly encourages others who say the most awful things about us, things that would not be tolerated if they were said about anyone else. And we cannot even go over there and defend ourselves.

In my book the door is always open to dialogue with them, but only after they stop the gleeful expressions of hate and acknowledge how harmful it can be.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:47:35 +0000

“i broke the stereotype he held of transwomen, a stereotype that’s been built within my lifetime.”

I’m beginning to think that people who break the stereotype tend to find others who also break the stereotype as well. All my transfriends are pretty much basically normal wonderful people. Now granted, we all read about the transpeople who are crazy or those who work in the sex industry. Maybe we’ve even talked to them occasionally, but I honestly don’t personally hang out with or know any that are ’stereotypical transwomen’.