All day, err’ day. Fuck.
The funny thing about this graph is that it says nowhere that the person speaking is a woman. And yet it is completly obvious to any reader that it is the case. That’s what one might call collectively internalized heteronormativity. Ethnomethodologists such as Harvey Sacks, Harold Garfinkel, or anthropologist Bruno Latour, have demonstrated how society is made through interactions and communication. If one obverses and analyses closely what people say and do, or more precisely what they do not say, but is implicitly understood, one will find the fondational structures of normativity which are intrinsic in the building of social stuctures. This graph, although it is meant to be feminist and in some regards possibly lgbt friendly, it technically reproducing a social structure that defines heterosexuality as the norm, homosexuality as a deviance. Furthermore it reproduces the notion that “feminist” is an attribute that is implicitly feminine, which is by my standards quite un-feministic actually.
You’re welcome. =P
(Source: hillabeee)
