Girlyscouts
This video, which has now been removed, showed us a young girl explaining why transgendered kids has no place in the GSUSA (Girl Scouts). The organisation allows transgender girls to join and is, in the video, accused of trying to keep this a secret.
Pitfalls
This tampon commercial is taking a lot of heat.
I should say: this transphobic tampon commercial is taking a lot of heat. There is a lot of focus on the rights and ethics concerning transsexuals these days and it doesn’t always leave a lot of room for humour or attempts at humour. Here in Denmark transsexuals are still considered mentally ill and just recently a Danish blogger caught the same wave of indignation that is now washing over the tampon company.
Homotropolis is on the beat as always but maybe a little fast when it comes to labelling the much debated video. When the headline of a post states that “transphobic commercial demanded off the net” it’s not really leaving a lot of room for reflection. What would be constructive would be to talk about why this commercial comes off as transphobic, rather than just rage, label and start collecting protest signatures.
Ups?
(One of the reasons I blog is to keep up with my english writing. This one, however, is going to be in danish since I am dealing with a text written in my first language)
Miriam Meyer har fået en hård medfart på grund af en “artikel” skrevet på Ekstra Bladets modeblog. Når jeg sætter artikel i gåseøjne er det fordi jeg ser en klar forskel på et stykke arbejde lavet af en journalist og et indlæg på en blog. En forskel der kan være let at overse og som jeg syntes der bliver talt meget lidt om. Jeg tror at en af grundene til at Miriams artikel er blevet så dårligt modtaget er at den rummer nogle uheldige formuleringer og rammer en tone som en trænet skribent måske havde været i stand til at bevæge sig udenom.
Apparently It’s Time
This, rather lovely, Australian video has been goung around my friends circle and some other channels I “listen” to recently. Stating “it’s time”.
Also Zach Wahls moving testament is still rousing people from their chairs (or at least prompting a push of the “share” button).
There is a kind of “buzz” for things to change on this front. I can relate to the sentiment that it is time. But time for what?
The + Thing
The + has been launched. It is here. Now it’s being processed. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a new internet service getting into melee with an established internet service like that and I’m enjoying the fact that it’s a real clash of the titans this time. Google vs Facebook. It’s on? I think…
…I imagine a lot of people will feel this way:
But then again… even though it’s popular to state ones dislike of Facebook we all spend time there and we do that because it’s established and feeding us the things we want to see. The newcomer will have to make people post content for each other really fast and this is not something the site itself can do. No matter how advanced it is. People might end up just having some fun with the new stuff, then returning to the old and comfortable.
The illusion that the new thing is “different” might draw people there too. Until they find out that it’s not. But at least the + is still in development and as such you can get the feeling that this could be anything you ever dreamed of. Like a pick-n-mix Facebook.
I do, however, often think that the very inflexibility of the ‘Face is what keeps people there. Minimum effort and those few times it bothers you that you can’t du just the thing you want to do you can always whine about it a bit before it becomes unimportant (31 seconds later). Do we want to have more options, choices and, as such, make more effort? And will we, in the end, just use it to be less social altogether?
PS: How do I make WordPress post this to my g+?
