Showing posts with label attitudes sur le genre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label attitudes sur le genre. Show all posts

Friday, 2 April 2010

She's back?




http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/athletics/8595361.stm

I've been wondering for some time what decisions Caster Semenya and her team would take on her further career. To me, this story epitomises the problems with our very dualistic society, which still today leaves little space for people who don't "fit" certain pre-conceived ideas. I understand the difficulties of this particular case which relate to the sporting world, but personally I'm a big fan of Caster Semenya. She always came across to me as a strong, determined and composed athlete. I find, fortunately, that sometimes actual people in real life can be much more unphased about all of our own individual identities than the voyeuristic and scandal-hungry media. This may of course be because I know many fantastic people... Thank goodness for that!

Thursday, 1 April 2010

Playing with gender




The following is a link to champion ice skater Johnny Weir's Poker Face routine. I like his style:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTaVkbl3Dp4

Ou sont passes les hommes?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6992889648130207837#

Une emission tres interessante sur le genre et le feminisme en 2010 (ou plutot 2007 a l'epoque!) avec des contributions interessantes surtout de Coralie Trinh Tie, Pascal Bruckner, Serge Hefez et Irene Thierry.