"Querillas" Seek Unisex Toilets at Stanford (PC MADNESS ALERT!)

Stanford Daily ^ | 11/27/02 | Alison Pierce

[MikalM]

New frontiers of the Nation of Victims...

[Huck]

These people have waaaaaaay too much time. Talk about the idle rich. Man o man. Er, I mean, transqueer o transqueer.

[Drango]

Couldn't happen to a better college.

GO HUSKIES

[glock rocks]

speech patterns that people use every day without considering their insensitivity towards queer people.

what's up, guys?
what's up, guys?
what's up, guys?
what's up, guys?
what's up, guys?
what's up, guys?
what's up, guys?
what's up, guys?
what's up, guys?
what's up, guys?

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

“For me, ‘queer’ is a gender-neutral term with which I identify that also includes my Native American self-identification as being two-spirited in the context of a normative culture,” said sophomore Marlon Footracer, president of Querillas.

Can anyone explain to me what this person is talking about? Or is it all just postmodern gobbledegook, as I suspect?

[aShepard]

QUEER,

Kinda has a nice ring to it.

Notice that the founder doesn't even have the balls to come out of the closet and give his/her name.

[Sam Cree]

"even the subtlest labeling of gender as good or bad disallows for safe and affirming spaces"

Not sure what that even means, but I am pretty sure that feminists are more guilty of it than anyone else. 'Course feminists are probably not the target here. But it would be funny if they were.

Universities sure seem to be centers of fools and idiocy these days.

[wideawake]

You've latched upon my favorite quote in this whole article.

I think the phrase "with which I identify that also includes" is just the capper.

[wideawake]

safer and more welcoming for genderqueer (a term that relates to being neither ‘sharply’ male nor ‘sharply’ female) and trans folks

Can't they just use the term "It's Pat!" instead?

[lawdude]

"QUEER,"

It isn't "queer"!

It is fudge packin'/carpet crunching, faggot, pervert!

Isn't it?

< rant/>

[wideawake]

Some examples are “What’s up? I’m straight,” “That’s so gay,” “Damn you faggot,” and “What’s up guys?”

Whew! I'm glad they pointed this out.

Mighty white of them.

[chit*chat]

“It looks like we have a long way to go in making people feel comfortable with others who challenge their traditional notions of gender,” the group’s founder said.

Well, by all means shove your concept of gender neutral on a society that is content with their current male/female identities. That'll work.

[wideawake]

I particularly like the idea of an "underground, guerilla" organization applying for official university funding.

[Guillermo]

Yeah, the Homosexual lobby only wants to have privacy in their own bedrooms.

That's what they used to tell us, right?

[nina0113]

Can anyone explain to me what this person is talking about? Or is it all just postmodern gobbledegook, as I suspect?

I'm glad it's not just me - I read that sentence three times before giving up. It is English, right?

[Fintan]

This perspective has been expressed by several academics, including Annamarie Jagose, a famous queer theorist.

Now, is this really what she (?) puts on her income tax return as "Occupation"????

[FreedomPoster]

As you suspect, it's all just postmodern gobbledygook.

I wish I could remember the FReeper that can generate that stuff. He can spit out a paragraph of complex-sounding total nonsense quicker than you can say "no marketable skills involved". He learned it as camoflage to survive college, but it's a frightening thing to see nonetheless.

[Sam Cree]

"an "underground, guerilla" organization applying for official university funding."

Does't make much sense, except I guess the attention craving, self important people that started all that "underground" BS in the 60's are now running the universities.

[wideawake]

Your reference to queer theory as "gobbledy-gook" (a word with clearly racist, orientalist roots) betrays your willingness to participate and valorize the hegemonic/phallocentric system of contradictions which victimizes and places under erasure the concerns and self-validation of the differently gendered.

[eastsider]

“The purpose of unisex bathrooms is to both eliminate gender categories for people who do not fall into the strict male-female binary as well as to make the bathroom space safer and more welcoming for genderqueer (a term that relates to being neither ‘sharply’ male nor ‘sharply’ female) and trans folks,” the group’s founder said.

I guess the "handicap" toilets are considered too "insensitive" ...