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

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

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

THERE'S NO SUCH GENDER AS UNISEX.NEUTER MAYBE!

[Amerigomag]

Revealing that the author goes to such lengths to make the word queer PC neutral and then uses the word homophobia without giving it a second thought or even an explanation of it's coinage (for political purposes) less than a generation ago.

[Tax-chick]

Just so you don't try it at my house! :-)

[driftless]

broadminded? Why you filthy sexist degenerate.... wait a minute..... I'm slurring degenerates... I'm being insensitive to the feelings of degenerates everywhere (sniff, sniff)...I must therefore severely chastise myself... without offending anyone of course.

[xm177e2]

The group uses the word “queer” — which has been used as a pejorative term for homosexuals — in an academic sense. “Queer” is an identity category that was reclaimed partly as a political tool, the way African-Americans reclaimed the word “black” as a political identity. This perspective has been expressed by several academics, including Annamarie Jagose, a famous queer theorist.

Blacks didn't "reclaim" the word black, they chose it instead of sticking with Negro. This is pretty basic history. The word queer was "reclaimed;" it was originally a word created by the gays in order to describe themselves.

he group will broadcast a string of homophobic yet commonly used phrases in White Plaza. The voice will be mechanical to symbolize how automatic these patterns are.

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

“What’s up guys?” isn't homophobic--it's arguably anti-woman, if one was to say that to a mixed crowd of males and females, but it cannot be considered homophobic, even by the hairiest of feminists. It is, however, missing a comma. It's the job of the editors to insert those. The Stanford Daily has pretty shoddy editing, which isn't really surprising considering the editors are probably Stanford students. Student journalists, the pride and joy of the elite universities.... BARF

[amused]

"I hate that you people have taken that word. That's our word for making fun of you guys. First you ruin all the tough names like Lance and Julian and now you take queer from us...."

- Homer J. Simpson

[amused]

Maybe someday I can stop by Stanford, and marginalize and disenfranchise a number of groups at the same time by leaving the seat up!

They want guerilla tactics, we'll show 'em how it's done!

[muggs]

This article made me remember an incident that happened at the gym last week. I went into the women's locker room (I'm female) to put my coat in a locker. You have to walk past the restroom stalls to get to the locker area. I was the only person in there except for one other person in a stall. I noticed as I walked past the stalls, that the feet were pointing the wrong direction but really didn't think too much about it. After I put my things in the locker I decided I needed to use the bathroom before I went out into the gym. I used the same stall as the other person and had to put the seat down first.

There's probably a perfectly logical explanation but I'm not sure.

[Astro Boy]

STAY TUNED for reports of rapes in these 'gender neutral' bathrooms...

I can see it coming!!!!!!!!!!

[ElTianti]

"Those guys are fags!" - JS, 1982

"Hey bud, what's your problem?"
"Fast Times at Ridgemont Hight" A funny movie

[altair]

I've no problem with separate bathrooms. While they're at it, they can have their own locker room too.

[BlueLancer]

"what's up, guys? "

What's up, doc?

[glock rocks]

In the scene where Wayne and Garth are sitting on the car by the airport, they were talking waiting for the planes to fly over. They started the scene and got through the dialogue right before when the plane was suppose to come. Only the plane was a little bit late. Spontaneously, Dana Carvey (Garth) asked Wayne if he found Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played girl bunny. This was not in the script. You can tell by Wayne's laugh that it wasn't expected. Just then the plane came and the director decided to keep the line in the movie

[Hemingway's Ghost]

auto-ironists

Great word construct. Yours?

[headsonpikes]

Never thought about it 'til now.

I doubt it, but who knows? Ha.

It fit better than 'self-parodying', an ugly construct, imo.