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How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« on: June 21, 2008, 10:46:13 PM »
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How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
Posted by one mean sheath on Sat Jun-21-08 01:18 PM

That's the working title for my directed study project for my senior project (I'm a Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies major and GLBT minor).
Full title (to give a little more detail) is - How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life: The Roles of TV Shows and Advertising in the Perpetuation and Maintenance of Gender roles, the Sex Binary, and the Garbage that is Heteronormativity.

The idea behind it is that I'm a television junkie. There I said it. But ever since I got more into women's, gender, and queer studies, I become enraged every time I turn on the television. So I'm going to kind of keep tally of how and how often traditional gender roles/sex binary/heteronormativity/transphobia/etc... show up on television and their roles in oppression and exclusion of the queer community and in the brainwashing from day one of everyone in the country. Holy normalization, Batman.

So! Thoughts, comments, thumbs up, thumbs down.... Go!

Whiskey.  Tango.  Foxtrot.

You can get a degree in Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies?!  You can minor in GLBT?! 
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2008, 11:15:21 PM »
What in the hell is GLBT?
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2008, 11:23:42 PM »
Quote from: rich_t on June 21, 2008, 11:15:21 PM
What in the hell is GLBT?
Giant Legume Bartering Tournament, I think.  It's like curling.  Or that French game where they throw heavy metals balls at the grass.  One of those "sports" that doesn't even show up on ESPN2.
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2008, 11:28:22 PM »
I will take worthless degrees for $1000 Alex. :mental:

GLBT is a Grape, lettuce, bacon, and tuna sandwich.
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2008, 11:31:45 PM »
Quote from: mamacags on June 21, 2008, 11:28:22 PM
I will take worthless degrees for $1000 Alex. :mental:

GLBT is a Grape, lettuce, bacon, and tuna sandwich.

Hey, that sounds tasty.  Where do I sign up?
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2008, 11:41:58 PM »
Once the OP graduates there will be a barrage of threads whining about not finding a job. Of course this will be due to the evil corporate economy and absolutely no fault of He/She/It's own. Is this a bachelor's degree? What are we talking here? 80 grand?

Loser!

BTW. It's Gay Lesbian Bi Transgendered. You should never mix grapes and bacon IMHO.
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2008, 01:11:33 AM »
GLBT - Gore Lost Because of Tennessee
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2008, 01:22:26 AM »
ooh, good one.  :-)
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2008, 02:04:13 AM »
Hell, I thought every college student majored in "sex". Do they only give the queer ones and the oddball ones degrees for it?
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #9 on: June 22, 2008, 02:39:55 AM »
1.  google http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=role+of+television+in+maintenance+of+gender+roles&spell=1

2. cut and paste

3.  get degree

4.  practice the phrase 'would you like fries with that?'
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #10 on: June 22, 2008, 04:16:37 AM »
Quote from: Happy Fun Ball on June 22, 2008, 01:11:33 AM
GLBT - Gore Lost Because of Tennessee

That's actually pretty damn clever.

Hi-5 fer you. :)

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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #11 on: June 22, 2008, 08:09:30 AM »
I'm in a bit of a glass house here, with a degree in English and everything, but what kind of living does the OP expect to make with the above degree?

Is there a company in the country who would hire someone with that degree??
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #12 on: June 22, 2008, 08:15:35 AM »
Quote from: Splashdown on June 22, 2008, 08:09:30 AM
I'm in a bit of a glass house here, with a degree in English and everything, but what kind of living does the OP expect to make with the above degree?

Is there a company in the country who would hire someone with that degree??

You expect this person to get a job so soon? Away with your filthy talk of economic reality.  :lmao:

They will have to spend a few more years getting a masters and a PhD and then they will be ready to start thinking about appling to be a professor, so that the whole self perpetuating cycle of nonsense can begin again.
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #13 on: June 22, 2008, 09:23:34 AM »
Quote from: rich_t on June 21, 2008, 11:15:21 PM
What in the hell is GLBT?

oh let me tell you... that aint the half of it. the full title is thus:

GLBTQIT

gay/lesbian/bi/transexual/queer/intersexed/transitioning  and i'm sure i missed some new ones.

'heteronormative' is a new one... i was hoping to cling to heterophobia for a while longer.  :popcorn:
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #14 on: June 22, 2008, 09:27:15 AM »
Quote from: Lauri on June 22, 2008, 09:23:34 AM
Quote from: rich_t on June 21, 2008, 11:15:21 PM
What in the hell is GLBT?

oh let me tell you... that aint the half of it. the full title is thus:

GLBTQIT

gay/lesbian/bi/transexual/queer/intersexed/transitioning  and i'm sure i missed some new ones.

'heteronormative' is a new one... i was hoping to cling to heterophobia for a while longer.  :popcorn:
The Q is for questioning.  Queer encompasses the whole thing.
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #15 on: June 22, 2008, 10:22:49 AM »
I have many questions . How does one even get a degree in something like this ? How does one write a thesis ? By observing people In their natural habitats like some sort of San Francisco based Dian Fossey or Jane Goodall ?

Will there be a movie ? "Bears in The Smog :The story of one mean sheath" ?

And finally, can one have a more specialized degree in the field, Such as an MA in "Hawt Internet Lesbians" ?
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #16 on: June 22, 2008, 10:35:46 AM »
Quote from: miskie on June 22, 2008, 10:22:49 AM
I have many questions . How does one even get a degree in something like this ? How does one write a thesis ? By observing people In their natural habitats like some sort of San Francisco based Dian Fossey or Jane Goodall ?

Will there be a movie ? "Bears in The Smog :The story of one mean sheath" ?

And finally, can one have a more specialized degree in the field, Such as an MA in "Hawt Internet Lesbians" ?

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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #17 on: June 22, 2008, 10:39:39 AM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on June 22, 2008, 10:35:46 AM
Quote from: miskie on June 22, 2008, 10:22:49 AM
I have many questions . How does one even get a degree in something like this ? How does one write a thesis ? By observing people In their natural habitats like some sort of San Francisco based Dian Fossey or Jane Goodall ?

Will there be a movie ? "Bears in The Smog :The story of one mean sheath" ?

And finally, can one have a more specialized degree in the field, Such as an MA in "Hawt Internet Lesbians" ?

"Buggerman's Dwarf:  The Journey Of A Queer Little Man In San Francisco"

He waited until he was 17 to ...

wait for it....

come out of the cabinet.




 :lmao:
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #18 on: June 22, 2008, 10:41:38 AM »
Quote from: Splashdown on June 22, 2008, 10:39:39 AM
Quote from: Lord Undies on June 22, 2008, 10:35:46 AM
Quote from: miskie on June 22, 2008, 10:22:49 AM
I have many questions . How does one even get a degree in something like this ? How does one write a thesis ? By observing people In their natural habitats like some sort of San Francisco based Dian Fossey or Jane Goodall ?

Will there be a movie ? "Bears in The Smog :The story of one mean sheath" ?

And finally, can one have a more specialized degree in the field, Such as an MA in "Hawt Internet Lesbians" ?

"Buggerman's Dwarf:  The Journey Of A Queer Little Man In San Francisco"

He waited until he was 17 to ...

wait for it....

come out of the cabinet.




 :lmao:

You're a sizeist!   :o
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #19 on: June 22, 2008, 10:43:49 AM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on June 22, 2008, 10:41:38 AM

You're a sizeist!   :o

I wish I'd taken more "little people's studies" courses in college.
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #20 on: June 22, 2008, 10:49:21 AM »
Quote from: Splashdown on June 22, 2008, 10:43:49 AM
Quote from: Lord Undies on June 22, 2008, 10:41:38 AM

You're a sizeist!   :o

I wish I'd taken more "little people's studies" courses in college.
It only takes one semester.  It's a very short course.
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #21 on: June 22, 2008, 11:00:28 AM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on June 22, 2008, 10:49:21 AM
Quote from: Splashdown on June 22, 2008, 10:43:49 AM
Quote from: Lord Undies on June 22, 2008, 10:41:38 AM

You're a sizeist!   :o

I wish I'd taken more "little people's studies" courses in college.
It only takes one semester.  It's a very short course.

And who says Vaudeville's dead.

We should go out on the road. We'd kill 'em in Peoria!
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Let nothing frighten you. 
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God never changes.
Patience attains all that it strives for.
He who has God lacks nothing:
God alone suffices.
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #22 on: June 22, 2008, 11:03:08 AM »
You forgot Furries
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #23 on: June 22, 2008, 11:13:07 AM »
Even thought this is probably a private college I wonder how much public money works its way (grants,studies) into funding such worthless nonsense.
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Re: How Gender and Queer Studies Ruined My Life.
« Reply #24 on: June 22, 2008, 11:48:56 AM »
Quote from: Splashdown on June 22, 2008, 11:00:28 AM
Quote from: Lord Undies on June 22, 2008, 10:49:21 AM
Quote from: Splashdown on June 22, 2008, 10:43:49 AM
Quote from: Lord Undies on June 22, 2008, 10:41:38 AM

You're a sizeist!   :o

I wish I'd taken more "little people's studies" courses in college.
It only takes one semester.  It's a very short course.



And who says Vaudeville's dead.

We should go out on the road. We'd kill 'em in Peoria!

Yes.  I was born in a trunk at the Princess Theater in Pocatello, Idaho.
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