Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: July 1, 2011
…well they aren’t the same thing, they’re hyponyms* of a broader category and we’re generally mostly just concerned about the broader category; forcing sex and gender to be different things serves to marginalize trans people by forcing gender onto their body parts. And doing so usually involves copious ignoring of facts, because everyone who decides [...]
Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: June 17, 2011
(crossposted on tumblr) So anyway, Cabbage was just applying for a job and one of the steps prior to getting an interview was like… fill out this questionaire where you say you’re extroverted and organized and have no disabilities. I maaaay have taken down the problematic questions. (There were about fifty questions total, problematic and [...]
Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: April 19, 2011
(I also wrote a less formal discussion of what I liked about Portal 2 on my Tumblr. This document contains spoilers.) Portal 2 is unfortunately not nearly as inclusive as the first. The first the worst problem (that I noticed) was that there was some implication that GlaDOS’s amorality was being equated with people with [...]
Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: February 10, 2011
[Crossposted from here] Okay how is it that we internalized this idea that ‘offensiveness’ is the problem? Because I mean seriously, when people make, say, jokes about how trans people are not really their gender and such, the problem isn’t offensiveness. It’s oppressiveness. You’re not offending someone. YOU’RE HURTING THEM. Equating being oppressed with being [...]
Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: January 19, 2011
I recently was reading someone talking about how silent protagonists in video are awesome because they let the player assume the role of the character, and the character is basically an insertion of the player into the game or some such. Which seems reasonable on the surface, except in practice it doesn’t work that way. [...]
Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: January 14, 2011
We all know about hypersexualized armor. Oblivion does a bit better on that but it still is kind of terrible sometimes. For example, this happened: I mean seriously that’s exactly why this type of armor makes no sense. (Also I went with heavy armor with this character because it seemed like it would be less [...]
Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: January 11, 2011
Something I have heard a lot, often from well meaning people: “Gender is social, sex is biological.” Okay I’ll give you that (mostly). But then it turns into something like “So your gender can be whatever you want, your sex is the biology, and fixed.” or even “Your sex is what your genitalia are” (or [...]
Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: January 8, 2011
Short version: The game is pretty good, beyond one plot point that I really hated and wasn’t very well done at all. Also it stars a woman without much sexism, so that always helps. (Yes my review mostly focuses on the sexism there is, what, did you think I’d ignore every little fault?) Beyond lie [...]
Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: January 7, 2011
I am, of course, referring to (LG/GL)BT(Q)(Q)(I)(A)(+more). Or possibly “QUILTBAG” …I’m actually more a fan of that one because it’s amusing and turns it into an acronym, but it still has the same problem as the initialism. And that is that it doesn’t really do what it’s supposed to do. My main problem with it [...]
Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: January 6, 2011
(I’m focusing mostly on video games and fantasy here, but the general ideas definitely appear elsewhere in speculative fiction, and moreso in other media. I’m just focusing on that combination because that’s where I’ve seen it the most lately, and also because fantasy video games seem to have not gotten passed making clones of Dungeons [...]
