I'm Straight And I Would LOVE A Visitor Badge. Especially At A Lesbian Bar B/c I Could Just Go Have A

I'm straight and I would LOVE a visitor badge. Especially at a Lesbian bar b/c I could just go have a drink somewhere that only has women and not have to worry about getting drugged and raped, but I also don't risk leading someone on by accident if I try to make some friends there. Plus all the other straight women who are just looking for friends would be able to find each other easily.

straight people should have to wear “VISITOR” badges when they go to gay bars

Reading a textbook chapter on emergency preparedness and of course they threw in the potential of biohazards, including smallpox. My first thought was 'but we have a vaccine for smallpox' and my second thought was 'No one under the age of 50 is vaccinated though' (they stopped regularly vaccinating in 1972) and that was a terrifying thought.

Depends on what you mean. A family I worked for had geese (and lots of other animals) and they taught me to just pick up the goose if it tried to attack me. And this was like, a giant white goose out of a storybook. But if it was a wild goose... I'd lose that fight.

Ladies this is important- do you think you could realistically fight a goose and win?

Let’s end cissexism :D

:) this is sweet

Half-baked thought but there's some truth to Butler's idea of gender being created and perpetuated as a self-replicating performance, it's just backwards imo. Before, for a brief time (80s, 90s, early 00s), it seemed that we were expanding the boundaries of gender and we did do that through performing it (ie how we dressed and acted etc) and it seemed there really were many ways to be a man or a woman. Now, with more gender identities, more plastic surgery, more influencers, more porn, more sexualization of young girls, toys being more gender-segreggated than before, the space for what is socially a 'woman' gets narrower and narrower personality & appearance wise because of all the people claiming they aren't women because women are Y and they are X and we reproduce that through our actions and through our endorsement (as a society) so gender is indeed a performance and it is indeed something we create and perpetuate. The problem is that, while Butler would consider what is happening now liberating, it's actually restrictive and suffocating (not to mention how much beauty standards, porn and the availability of cosmetic surgery fucks up young people's mental health!) people aren't being freer to explore themselves, they've just gone from a big cage to a set of a lot of very narrow cages. But we're still all in a cage.