Geez. Gender Bending/Changing and OS wars. All we need now is for someone
to ask "What does IDM mean?" and we can hit a new all time low for this
list.
Time to dig out the "unsub" instructions...
rw
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rjyan Kidwell" <cex@tigerbeat6.com>
To: "Lee Azzarello" <roswell@alumni.antioch-college.edu>; "IDM"
<idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: [idm] Walter/Wendy Carlos
quoted 9 lines <not sarcastic>Oooooh, gender and identity politics. True, but in the> > <not sarcastic>Oooooh, gender and identity politics. True, but in the
> > English language if you have a penis, like it or not, you're a man.
> Identity
> > politics are fluid but biological facts are not.
>
> except when they are.
>
> it is often up to the doctor delivering a child to determine the child's
> sex. it is not all that uncommon for a baby to be born with a penis that
is
quoted 2 lines abnormally small, so the doctor will do a little splice and snip job and> abnormally small, so the doctor will do a little splice and snip job and
> presto! you have a baby girl. Same thing can happen when a doctor botches
a
quoted 4 lines circumcision really badly. Some thinkers have used data about occurances> circumcision really badly. Some thinkers have used data about occurances
> like this to try and throw the whole idea of polarized, set-in-stone sex
> differences into question. If you're interested in seeing the full
> treatment, the only author I can really think of off my head is Pat
Califia,
quoted 15 lines but there are others, too.> but there are others, too.
>
>
> and obligatory musical content: RIP Big Pun
>
>
>
> -rk
>
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