“What I find interesting…
“What I find interesting is that both TWIRP and Powder Puff exist to reinforce, not undermine, stereotypical gender roles.”
No doubt—and this is what drives me absolutely up a wall. Over the summers I work as a teacher at CTY, a residential educational program for gifted students (7th-10th grade). Every term there’s a “cross-dressing day”, and it drives me nuts because these are almost all reflective, smart, sensitive young men and women—and for people like that a “cross-dressing day” could be a real teaching opportunity for thinking a bit about what gender is and what gender norms do to women every day. And I think it is actually positive for a lot of the students. But every term there is at least one jerk of a boy—sometimes several—who ruins a perfectly good day by striking up pornographic poses, running around having mock slap-fights, and generally taking every opportunity he can to mock and degrade women. That doesn’t mean I think the day should be banned, of course—least of all because Right-wing twits get uncomfortable at the idea of boys in dresses and girls acting like boys! But it does make me wish I had a manifesto to hand out or a PC indoctrination camp to run people through or something…
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