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May. 27th, 2008

  • 10:17 PM
iconsdeboheme audrey hepburn
Since I've been really bad about updating, just a few quick things.

1) Finished watching Tin Man and fell deep into the fandom hard and fast, searching for much fanfiction hell. hurrah!

2)Finished reading "As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raises as a Girl" and am taking a break from the heavier reading to breeze through "Prince Caspian" which will take me like... no time at all.

3)Went to my little sister's gradation today. It was just bizzare, because my baby sister can't really be graduating from high-school and going to college. And also, because it brought back some crazy memories of my own high-school graduation, which I can't believe was five years ago. Jesus.

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[info]anolee wrote:
May. 28th, 2008 05:21 pm (UTC)
Hey Kara, this is John's wife Jenny! I put you on my friends' list! Feel free to put me on yours!

Congrats on the new car! Okay, I need to lay off the exclamation marks ...
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[info]endril_lei wrote:
May. 29th, 2008 12:36 am (UTC)
Hey Jenny! I added you back, nice to see you! ^^
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[info]abunaisakana wrote:
May. 29th, 2008 01:57 am (UTC)
Is the "As Nature Made Him" about David Reimer? My mom was presented the John/Joan case during a continuing ED seminar for urology nurses and I think it taught her a lot. Then I ended up watching the television special with a pretty dedicated feminist friend of mine who follows gender neutral theories so that was interesting.

The presentation my mom saw was all about babies born intersexed (what we used to call hermaphrodites) and the special teams of urologists and therapists and everyone who helps the parents when the baby is born without a clear physical gender. Like David, it used to be that if people were born without a complete male phallus (or had an accident like David) they would make them into girls since they know how to make better vagina than working penis but these days they've figured out that a man with a micro penis is much more adapted and happy than a virilized brain being told he is a woman.
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(Anonymous) wrote:
May. 29th, 2008 11:21 pm (UTC)
Yeah, it's about the Davi Reimer case. It's really interesting, and it also goes into the common gender theories of the 50s and 60s, which was also fascinating. What I especially found interesting is that for a long time, the John/Joan case was used especially by feminists to prove the nature/nuture debate. There is some crazy stuff in that book, but it was worth a read, I thought.
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