9 August 2009

fuck-up epistemology

If this happens one more time I will evaporate into a heap of green slime:
"artsy" club / club kids / gendered bathroom. Girl with silvery top stares at me. stares hard & rude. Tweaky voice: "yOU know this is the GIRLS' bathroom DON'T YOU?" and I say with a voice that expresses a hundred years of exhaustion: "Yeah, I KNOW!" She just stares back at me. Bluntly. Like she thinks: this is not the way it should be.
Fuck, what kind of epistemology is this?
I mean, hey, this girl was like 20 years old. are people getting more and more fascist-minded about gender or what? why?
Next time I'm in a place like that, I'm gonna walk straight up to some silver-top wearing girl and say: "hey, kid, you know this is the GIRLS' bathroom!?" Wonder how she would react?

4 comments:

ponks said...

Yes, yes! Do it! Next time, just answer; "well, the bathroom for silvery-shimmering gender-obsessed hens is RIGHT THERE" and point towards your ass.
Yes, I think the gender fascism in fact IS getting stronger and I don´t know why. Maybe it´s one of society´s bitter fruits which learn us to build more groups, and focus less on individuality. "You should KNOW what you are, right? And as you know, you should SHOW IT" Which means if you know you´re a girl you should wear silvery tops, heels and that shit.
And hey, most of the guys look like SHIT nowadays. Just saw some musculous flexy assholes playing ball in the park, shirtless of course, and I could almost SEE the testosterone splash as they were kicking the ball....
Just two sides of a bullshit story. Keep on ignoring gender stereotypes and chose what ever bathroom you like!

M. Lindman said...

Great reply as always!
Indeed, up the ass they belong, these stereotypes.

I think you're on to something.
I think gender fascism is strenthened by idolizing "individuality" but that just means, in a twisted way, that groups get all-important. This is pretty weird, right, because the Official Ideology has it the opposite way: individuality will Set Us Free. The bottom-line of individuality right now, I guess, is a consumerist outcry: "I belong with you successful, hip, rich, educated, beautiful people! Hey, buy into me!" And gender is tight up with that. As you say, "knowing what you are". Gender-fascism is all about convincing people that you are a Man or a Woman. (As Butler & Solanas say: that process of proving will never end, because there can't be any final "proof".)

Great expression, two sides of a bullshit story. So true. so true.

I get angry. I put on Bertha "Chippie" Hall to comfort myself.

ponks said...

Well, I got inspired of your sad story and had to make something out if it, out came that "gendercrat dumbag", as you saw :)
Anyway, it makes me sad and angry that people can confront other people with stupid issues like which toilet you should use. Fuck! Use that straightforwardness into something important instead, stupid bitches.
I always want to drag down my pants and show my ass when I go to the girl´s toilet and see them almost desperately crowd in front of the mirror to powder their sweaty noses.
Fuck!! If you don´t look good without powder you will NEVER DO! And no-one will want you anyway! Hahaha. Retards.

M. Lindman said...

WORD! ("Finns are so shy..." well, apparently there are exceptions when it is ok to talk to people you don't know...too bad it's in this type of situation...)
Thanks for the Gendercrat dumbag - I loved it!!