September 28, 2007

let’s have some more borders!

Filed under: (non) Community, Gender Schmender, The First Up Against The Wall Department, Politics

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Those lovely folk at the FTM Australia website have just begun a new web forum to talk about identity in all its incredible shapes and forms. Readers may like to note the (unintended?) irony of the forum’s title: it’s called Borders.

That’s just what the world needs: more borders. More of a them and us approach.

I look forward to reading the flame wars. Which, no doubt, will be deleted even before they begin.

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  1. oh, that’s simply MARVELLOUS! (although i did read it as borders-the-book-store … i guess the mass-produced, standardised ideas of what things should be still resonates)

    Comment by nix — September 28, 2007 @ 8:16 am

  2. Oh, it can be read as Borders the bookstore too. But I think it means the borders of identity. Like, some people are real men, and some aren’t, and it’s important to have a border between them. That’s how I read it, anyhow.

    Comment by Az — September 28, 2007 @ 1:52 pm

  3. yisyis, you are right.

    but they are EVEN MORE right that there needs to be borders, otherwise how would we know what makes up a Real Aussie Bloke ™?

    Comment by nix — October 2, 2007 @ 7:15 am

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