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Feb. 10th, 2008 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_fantastic_ms_foxSo the word on the previous entry is "whoever you are, you can take off your pants. Just don't be a jerk."
::Take moment to let the palpable sense of relief, and pride in progress of social values sink in::
Feel that? That's the feeling of "I guess that was affecting me a lot more than I thought it would."
It also means that I can invite people without worrying about them getting hurt, and I can volunteer without worrying about what I put my name and time to, and I can show up without worrying about a scary reaction (strangely, this bothers me the least of these three consequences). I'm sufficiently satisfied with the answers to go help put up posters and spread the word around.
So. Yeah. That went a bit deeper than I thought. I'm surprised. Emotionally entangled anyone?
I need to ask people about how to do this sort of thing better: both more diplomatically and maybe with a better management of emotional entangelment. Fortunately, a classmate of mine is organizing a group on a sufficiently similar topic to allow for transferable skills.
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I guess that I really do care about this stuff. I got taught the very basics of social justice issues as a kid, and "gender" was always on top of the list of "things about the world that need changing." It was my favourite topic in social sciences, and one third of the reason that I transferred to SFU (in was 2000, and admittedly, I was misinformed).
Of course now, SFU actually has a gender studies component, and I'm finishing my diploma in it.
Moreover, I'm now living in a space that is pretty much off the gender map, and I'm feeling the sting. Plus, while here, I have run into a lot of people who have been pretty badly hurt even though in a much less remote place than myself.
That probably explains it.
Feel that? That's the feeling of "I guess that was affecting me a lot more than I thought it would."
It also means that I can invite people without worrying about them getting hurt, and I can volunteer without worrying about what I put my name and time to, and I can show up without worrying about a scary reaction (strangely, this bothers me the least of these three consequences). I'm sufficiently satisfied with the answers to go help put up posters and spread the word around.
So. Yeah. That went a bit deeper than I thought. I'm surprised. Emotionally entangled anyone?
I need to ask people about how to do this sort of thing better: both more diplomatically and maybe with a better management of emotional entangelment. Fortunately, a classmate of mine is organizing a group on a sufficiently similar topic to allow for transferable skills.
---
I guess that I really do care about this stuff. I got taught the very basics of social justice issues as a kid, and "gender" was always on top of the list of "things about the world that need changing." It was my favourite topic in social sciences, and one third of the reason that I transferred to SFU (in was 2000, and admittedly, I was misinformed).
Of course now, SFU actually has a gender studies component, and I'm finishing my diploma in it.
Moreover, I'm now living in a space that is pretty much off the gender map, and I'm feeling the sting. Plus, while here, I have run into a lot of people who have been pretty badly hurt even though in a much less remote place than myself.
That probably explains it.