My friend Tim just told me I hadn't updated my blog in awhile, which I was aware of. However, I was not aware that it had been a month. That's crazy.
I don't really have much to update though. I'm going home in approximately four days to see the fam bam, get a tattoo and see Atmosphere in concert. Oh. And I'm doing a polar plunge this Saturday. Which is scary.
On a random tangent, I just saw an event on Facebook for this Second Hand Prom thing that Concordia is doing. And in the description, it explains that men should be getting their suits from their closets and women should be dusting off their formal dresses.
I'm not a fan of this heteronormativity. I shouldn't be surprised by it, but it is shocking to me. I know there aren't many people on this campus (if any, really) that bend gender norms. However, I don't think that means we should be promoting gender normativity.
Maybe I'm just too liberal for this campus. :/
I think you you're pulling teeth darling. I understand your point but from a PR perspective, if they had noted that "men may dust off their formal dresses," I think more then a few people would have been deterred to come. Also, at some point societal norms are acceptable in regards to the idea that they promote structure in people's lives.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'm just to conservative for this campus :/
Orrr they could've just left the gender part out of it and said dust off your formal wear, thereby not proscribing a certain attire to men and a certain attire to women.
ReplyDeleteAlso, structure is fine. Societal norms that tell me what I should do/say/wear/etc as a woman are not. :)
Do you really wish the world to be with out gender normativity? (which by the way, according to mozilla, is not a word) Personally I would like to continue to see girls in beautiful dresses or skinny jeans for that matter. As well as men continuing not to wear bikinis and dresses. Men and women have different bodies which are unique and beautiful in their own way. Women look damn good in certain things and I look damn good in a tux :)
ReplyDeleteI didn't think it was a word, but it fit what I wanted to say. And I agree that women look damn good in dresses and skinny jeans (as do men in the latter) but I feel that people should be able to dress however they want regardless of gender or my own personal opinion of attractiveness.
ReplyDeleteAlso, this conversation would be much better in person. Can we hang out soon? Or after break?
either of those would be acceptable yes
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