There's a section on gender study and sexuality and stuff, including a book on "Men and Masculinity". Sounds stupid, but anything with Alan Alda and Peter Pan have gotta be entertaining. I couldn't get those books, because the library closed, but I got a cool one about gender-neutral terms. Basically goes through and takes things like waitress and waiter and gives the gender neutral equivalents. It's from 1988, so most of them are actually in use- but it's pretty cool seeing that idiots actually look at this stuff. I can't imagine what feminism would be like if we had nouns with genders. I can just see it "Skirt is masculine?! This is proof that fashion is a male conspiracy to keep people uncomfortable!". As it turns out, people forget history faster'n anything.
Did anyone know that a packman is a peddler? I mean, what has that got to do with eating dots and ghosts? That's just weird.
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I spent most of second year of college in the library reading "The Politics of Transgenderism" even though my degree was nothing to do with sexuality or gender! :-D
That's awesome. I should seriously considering doing that. It'd probably be interesting. ^^
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