.:Life Or Something Like It:.

I am only using this journal to read friend's entries and to be part of communities.

by Riki Wilchins

Read this whole book today to procrasinate doing real school work. To procrasinate even more, I've decided to put quotes from the book on here.

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"Language had always felt like a poor tool, one that didn't even begin to capture the ways I felt about the world or the things in my head."

"This notion of how each of us must look, act, and dress because of our sex is deeply embedded in our society."

"...it's fair to ask whether feminism will ever fully conquer sexism without directly addressing women's rights to masculinity, gender expression, and identity."

..."because gender is such a personal thing, we think our experience reflects our own personal shortcomings...we assumed the problem was us, not the gender system."

"To be an unwomanly woman or an unmanly man requires an act of rebellion, a willingness to fly in the face of language, reason, and meaning."

"And because the binary categories of male/female, boy/girl, gay/straight are among the primary ways we come to know ourselves, theorists soon found themselves in the tricky business of deconstructing the Self as well."

"But what if Sex is already a gendered way of looking at bodies? What if Sex is already gender, so that the distinction between the two is no distinction at all? What if Sex - the original Given, transcendent and universal - could be deconstructed?"

"Doctors feared that acknowledging a history of intersexuality would undermine the sense of gender identity they had created in the child through secrecy and surgery."

"...intersex is the sex that doesn't exist."

"We don't fit the words to the bodies; instead, it is the bodies that must fit the words."

"But if Sex is such an obvious and natural fact of bodies, why is it something that children must be taught?"

"...for most of recorded history, the vagina did not even have a separate name."

"...one is not just one's race, one must learn to be one's race..."

"...biology is not destiny or that one is not born a woman but rather becomes one."

"...identities are themselves the product of cultural constructions."

"...one can only distinguish feeling like a real man to the exact degree that one does not feel like a real womanm, and vice versa."

"Being female may be biological and thus unavoidable, but being a woman is cultural and therefore changeable."

"...there is something deeply wrong with gender roles, yet gender seems as compelling and inevitable as ever."

"Gender rights are human rights, and they are for all of us."

Gender


Queer

It's been one week now that I have had a cigarette...
...Seems I got one thing in my life finally in order


Now it is time to get the rest of my life in order...

Will Things Ever Start Looking Up?

I fucking hate AU.

I only came back, beucase I thought I would like my classes.
They aren't that great.

My floor sucks big dick.

Guess I'll call my Dad this weekend and discuss coming home.

"Name five of life's simple pleasures that you like most, then pick five people to do the same. Try to be original and creative and not to use things that someone else has already used."


1. A nice cup of coffee and a cigarette in the morning.
2. Buying a CD and liking every single song on the album.
3. Trying on a pair of jeans that you thought were your size, but they end up being too big.
4. Coming across a great quote in a book you are reading.
5. Seeing that life's simple pleasures make life worth while.


People I'd like to see do this
1. curiedawg
2. redveggies
3. stopbarking
4. thegoose
5. _incontrol

Smile for me Daddy!

Comment and ...
1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you what reminds me of you.
3. I'll pick a substnace to wrestle with you in.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal. You MUST. It is written.

1) Was 2005 a good year for you? For the most part.

2) What was your favorite moment of the year? Graduation...and the party that followed it...

3) What was your least favorite moment of the year? uh going to jail?

4) Where were you when 2005 began? Brittany's house...being all emo...

5) Who were you with? Brittany Marie Roberts!

6) Where will you be when 2005 ends? Drunk off my ass...with Bird...

7) Who will you be with when 2005 ends? with Bird...and prob some other gtown ho's...

8) Did you keep your new years resolution of 2005? didn't have one?

9) Do you have a new years resolution for 2006? not at the moment...

10) Did you fall in love in 2005? nope.

11) If yes, with who?

12) If yes, do they know?

13) Are you still in love with them?

14) You regret it?

15) Did you breakup with anyone in 2005? not necessarily...

16) Did you make any new friends in 2005? uh yes...i started college...many many new friends...

17) Who are your favorite new friends? too many to name...Anna & Ruben?

18) What was your favorite month of 2005? May or August

19) Did you travel outside of the US in 2005? yep, Dominican Republic ^_^

20) How many different states did you travel to in 2005? no idea, i moved to DC?

21) Did you lose anybody close to you in 2005? not death-wise...

22) Did you miss anybody in the past year? yea, i miss my friends and family back home...

23) What was your favorite movie that you saw in 2005? Rent =X Yes, I'm Queer...

24) What was your favorite song from 2005? Don't Cha - Pussycat Dolls ^_-

25) What was your favorite record from 2005? Shakira - Oral Fixacion 2

27) Did you have a favorite concert in 2005? No.

28) Did you drink a lot of alcohol in 2005? LOL, Hell Yes...I only blacked out 6 times though!

29) Did you do a lot of drugs in 2005? Just Weed.

30) How many people did you sleep with in 2005? 0

31) Did you do anything you are ashamed of this year? I don't think so.

32) What was the worst lie someone told you in 2005? that we were friends...

33) Did you treat somebody badly in 2005? No?

34) Did somebody treat you badly in 2005? no comment...

35) How much money did you spend in 2005? Oh lordy, who keeps track of this shit?

36) What was your proudest moment of 2005? Being Valedictorian.

37) What was your most embarrassing moment of 2005? no idea, being de-pantsed?

38) If you could go back in time to any moment of 2005 and change something, what would it be? uh November 4, 2005...or back to August and never meeting the person who ruined my life on November 4th...

39) What are your plans for 2006? do well at AU, transfer, get the hell out of DC...

40) Post some lyrics that encompass 2005 to you:
So don’t bother
I won’t die of deception
I promise you won’t ever see me cry
Don’t feel sorry