This is an interesting picture in its depiction of gender and how feminity is signified: pink, skirt, legs together. When really, there’d be nothing wrong with her wearing the same outfit as everyone else (in my opinion, Mr. Yellow could do with a little skirt). Also, I assume that a lot of thinking and planning [...]
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Power Rangers
Posted in gender, tagged depiction of feminity, gender, pink, power rangers on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Masculinity
Posted in gender, identity on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Maybe this is the sort of examining that doesn’t lead anywhere. The sort that’ll just come to the point of shit-is-fucked-up – but we knew that anyway.
So, what I’ve been wondering is: What’s my fascination with masculinity? Not with men in general; with the ideals of masculinity, images of heroes and loners, icons and superstars. [...]
What if?
Posted in gender, identity on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was wondering the other day how I would react if I happened to wake up one morning and my body had turned male. Would I mind? I don’t think so.
What would I look like then? How would my body change? I’d not be that muscular, I don’t think, but I wouldn’t be skinny either. [...]
Wolverina
Posted in films, gender, kink on June 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It might be time to rename the blog. “Ireen’s obsession with Wolverine and Gambit.” And last night I seem to have tried to fuck my boyfriend like Schreibertooth. With teeth and claws. But do not worry – it’ll pass. I am like that. And no boyfriends have been harmed.
That said – it hasn’t passed yet. [...]
Genderfuck Deluxe
Posted in dreams, gender, identity, tagged dreams, Gambit, man with vagina, slash fiction, transsexuality on May 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
All the sexy dreams I’ve ever head, I can count on one hand. Usually they are either very much about my own body or about someone I have a huge crush on. (Then there were also these teasing dreams in which I was surrounded by teammates or best friends of that guy I had the [...]
Doing Gender.
Posted in gender, identity, tagged doing gender, drag king, identity on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In a seminar a professor once started asking every single student how he or she was doing gender. Although I had thought that I had understood the concept, answering the question on this personal level proved to be strangely difficult. Basically I just repeated what others had said before me – I put on make [...]
What’s wrong with what people think why women watch Wolverine.
Posted in films, gender, tagged X-Men Origins: Wolverine on May 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I went to see Wolverine the first day it came out. There were only a handful of people in the cinema (maybe because it was in original version? or too early on a Thursday?). So there was me and my boyfriend, another het couple beside us, two women in front of us and a bunch [...]
Masochism
Posted in gender, kink, theory, tagged BDSM, Freud, Kraft-Ebbing, masochism on April 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Recently, I did some digging into the history of BDSM and I came across a few interesting points on masochism and gender, namely in the work of Kraft-Ebbing and Freud.
Richard Freiherr von Kraft-Ebbing, author of the “Psychopathia Sexualis”, not only coined the terms sadism and masochism in his classification of sexual perversions. He was also [...]
