The BFF made me aware of the Irma thing by linking me to an online article that was in itself entirely rage-inducing from the way it appeared completely unbiased yet was clearly structured to indicate "loony sensitive gay people, wtf!"
My problem with that ad, and the people who spoke out against it especially, was actually the conspicuous conflation of gender non-normativity with homosexuality. It was like everyone accepted the premise that ballet = gay and went from there. I had that instant reaction of, "get off my side, you're making it look bad!"
Anyway, it put me in such a bad mood that I have been avoiding all mention of it. But yes, it's these tiny drops that just manage to creep down the back of your neck, while everyone is going on about how it's stopped raining.
I mostly experience my mom as indignant when she's confronted with someone who is clearly, aggressively phobic or *ist, but mostly she's just as caught up in framing/describing the other-ness as everybody else. Pige-kæreste is a good example (you don't know it?), the heavily loaded 'friend' is another classic. I have friends MY age who use those expressions.
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Date: 2011-05-29 02:27 pm (UTC)My problem with that ad, and the people who spoke out against it especially, was actually the conspicuous conflation of gender non-normativity with homosexuality. It was like everyone accepted the premise that ballet = gay and went from there. I had that instant reaction of, "get off my side, you're making it look bad!"
Anyway, it put me in such a bad mood that I have been avoiding all mention of it. But yes, it's these tiny drops that just manage to creep down the back of your neck, while everyone is going on about how it's stopped raining.
I mostly experience my mom as indignant when she's confronted with someone who is clearly, aggressively phobic or *ist, but mostly she's just as caught up in framing/describing the other-ness as everybody else. Pige-kæreste is a good example (you don't know it?), the heavily loaded 'friend' is another classic. I have friends MY age who use those expressions.