Watching as an ever expanding web connects people around the world.
A wicked big thanks
to my FOs who believed in me, to Daniel for convincing me, to Allison who gave me a chance to do something right, to my friends for never giving up on me, to my family for agreeing to love me the way I am, to Wink for inspiring me, and to you for reading and supporting my blog.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
ManPants: the project that ate my life
So I finished my project about spending a day dressed as a man. Holy Cheese it took me over 10 hours to finish editing the video and I did a pretty shoddy job of it and then wrote one of the worst papers I've ever written. It was one of those wow-this-doesn't-make-a-lot-of-sense-but-I-don't-have-time papers. Awesome.
Here's hoping that 20% of my grade didn't just vanish into nothing.
To be honest the project became half for my soc class and half for this class looking at gender and how it's constructed and how it relates to me. It was incredibly important to me to take it seriously and give it everything I could.
Interestingly my parents and my sister literally laughed at me and my efforts and refused to recognize that this was personally emotionally significant for me. As a result I'm still mad at them and they're confused and annoyed. This should be fun.
In case you're wondering I'm very aware that I didn't manage to pass and I look really bizarre in the photo.
I decided to prepare it in the form of a video diary because I can get my thoughts out much faster that way. I was annoyed that youtube made me split it into two parts because of the length. It essentially comes out to 17 minutes of gender based navel gazing but whatever.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you "ManPants: A Day as a Dude"!!
I am an FTM.
I have known I was a man since I was 3 even though I didn't know the word for it.
I think President Obama is a BAMF.
I think Michelle Obama is an even bigger BAMF.
I watch The Rachel Maddow Show every single day.
I am a card carrying member of the ACLU.
I think Thomas Jefferson was a total badass even if he did stab Washington in the back (although that part was messed up).
My favorite "Founding Father" is Madison.
I find C-SPAN interesting.
I watch MSNBC daily.
Bill O'Reilly pisses me off to no end.
I am a flaming Liberal.
I often get in over my head and just hope things work out in the end.
They usually do and I don't know why.
My mom was a bra-burning feminist in the 70's.
My entire life philosophy is based on a painting.
I like orange sherbet.
In his poem Ovid tells how Arachne, a mere mortal, dared to claim that her weaving was better than that of the Goddess Pallas Athena. After being shamed in a challenge against Athena, Arachne was turned into a spider doomed to weave webs for the rest of eternity.
The idea of Arachne's web is similar to that of the networks being built throughout out the world of the internet, millions of tiny threads of connection intersecting in millions of ways. Women today are weaving their own infinite webs to support and inform and generally connect with eachother in ways no one predicted.
All of this is made possible through the technological revolution that is Web 2.0.
Your title is great, Man Pants. Keep up the good work!
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