Status Updates From Gender Outlaws: The Next Ge...

"46. Can you choose whether or not to think of your gender as a political or social construct?"

In what fucking universe is this a CISGENDER PRIVILEGE??? What's the implication here, exactly? As if cis people are the originators of the concept. Oh my fucking god this book is unreadable at varying intervals.

Ryka Aoki says 'if two men have just attacked you, there had better be cops to call' and like 50 pages later Sassafras Lowrey says "My friends were beat up in the streets and we knew better than to call the cops". Gender Outlaws contains multitudes.

There are a lot of people in here who seem pretty goddamn mad about gender studies. Gender Studies, Grrrr. I don't have a strong opinion on this other than that it seems pretty funny. What was up in 2011 Gender Studies courses?