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Untenrum frei
Untenrum frei | Margarete Stokowski
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SEX. MACHT. SPASS. UND PROBLEME. In ihrem Debt Untenrum frei schreibt die Autorin und Spiegel-Online-Kolumnistin Margarete Stokowski ber die kleinen schmutzigen Dinge und ber die groen Machtfragen. Es geht darum, wie die Freiheit im Kleinen mit der Freiheit im Groen zusammenhngt, und am Ende wird deutlich: Es ist dieselbe. Mit scharfsinnigem Blick auf die Details gelingt ihr ein persnliches, provokantes und befreiendes Buch. Stokowski erzhlt von dem frhen Wunsch, unbedingt als Mdchen wahrgenommen zu werden, von unzulnglichem Aufklrungsunterricht, von Haaren und Enthaarung, von Gewalterlebnissen, von Sex, von Liebe und vom Feminismus. Und sie verbindet ihre wunderbar erzhlten persnlichen Erlebnisse mit philosophischen, politischen und wissenschaftlichen Analysen und zeigt damit: Sie ist mit ihren Erfahrungen nicht alleine. Wir fhlen uns als freie, aufgeklrte Individuen, aber erst wenn wir Geschichte um Geschichte zusammentragen, wird die kollektive Schieflage, die strukturelle Ungleichheit sichtbar. Dennoch: Wenn ich Geschichten aus meinem Leben erzhle, dann nicht, um langsam, aber sicher ein Bild von mir als Vollopfer aufzubauen, schreibt Stokowski im Gegenteil. Ihr geht es um eine Ent-Opferung. Humorvoll und klug geht sie damit der Frage nach, wie politisch das Private noch immer ist. Der Feminismus erklrt mir nicht, warum der Bus nicht auf mich wartet. Aber er erklrt mir, warum ich mich fr mein Zusptkommen entschuldigen werde, auch wenn ich nicht schuld war, sondern der Bus zu frh gefahren ist. Er erklrt mir, warum viele der Frauen, die ich kenne, sich auch noch entschuldigen wrden, wenn sie von einem Meteoriten getroffen werden.
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Buechersuechtling
Buechersuechtling
Untenrum frei | Margarete Stokowski
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Mehso-so

Between a “So-So” and a “Pan” for me.
Contrary to my first notion there‘s quite a lot in there I agree to. That‘s the pro-side. On the con-side it‘s soooo theoretical. 🥱 Yawn. It absolutely bored me. The author is unable to hold my attention and I really don‘t see where the hype comes from. #SorryNotSorry

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Buechersuechtling
Buechersuechtling
Untenrum frei | Margarete Stokowski
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“Nor is it explained [...] that dual sex is a social construct.” (Blink 3, minute 2:34)

⬆️⬆️⬆️ 🤔 Uhm – it‘s mostly (I said mostly) a biological construct.

annamatopoetry speaking as someone with a degree in gender studies: nope. I'd be happy to elaborate. 3y
Buechersuechtling @annamatopoetry Cool. 😁 Shoot. That‘s the problem with those Blinks. They present the statement, not the derivation. Then I quickly googled and only found entries about hermaphroditism. 🤷🏽‍♀️ 3y
annamatopoetry 1) okay, this is going to take a fair amount of comments, but it's start with some vocab. the term you're looking for in English is 'gender binary'. it's the idea, so prevalent in our current culture, that there are two genders and two corresponding sexes, "male" and "female". 3y
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annamatopoetry 2) but let's start with biology. if we define bio male and bio female as "having a penis" and "having a vagina", we'll catch most of humans, but not as you mentioned, the people born with intersexualism, which is usually defined as one of two things. one is being born with ambiguous genitalia. the other is being born with multiple sets or conflicting primary and secondary sex characteristics (testes/ovaries). that's about 1% of the world's pop. 3y
annamatopoetry 3) approx, which is 76 million people, a medium sized European country. but even that may be lowballing it as the majority of the world's population haven't needed abdominal imaging and may just think they're infertile. ok let's try another metric then. how about chromosomes? xx and xy, right? except no, it turns out there is quite a bit of chromosomal variation in humans, lots of which don't have any effect other than infertility 3y
annamatopoetry 4) not sure what happened with the spoiler thing there. anyway. you can have a chromosomal variation and not know it. ok but what about hormones? even less good of a metric, all people with vaginas have "androgens" like testosterone, all people with penises have estrogen. it varies, yes, which is why we end with situations with athletes like Caster Semaya, who has ovaries (they made her prove it!) and xx chromosomes but can't compete due 3y
annamatopoetry 5) to higher than usual natural testosterone levels. as in, she won, they didn't like it, they made new rules for her. ok so biological sex is a MESS. but gender. society has always had two genders, right? yeah, not that either. for us, 'has penis' and 'has vagina' seems like natural categories, but that hasn't always been the case everywhere. in some societies, kids haven't separated by gender until they hit puberty. in others, the division 3y
annamatopoetry 6) has been "can give birth to children" and "everyone else". a LOT of societies have had at least three genders, with folks born with ambiguous genitalia sometimes taking the third position, but just as often that third gender is just based on personal choice. my personal favorite is high medieval Europe, where I'm sure everyone will say that we only had women and men, right? except that the standard rules and recommendations for men... 3y
annamatopoetry 7) doesn't apply to monks. I would argue that the medieval definition of "man" is "has testes and uses them", because when you look at writings about what men's and women's tempers are, what feelings they feel, what pets they ought to have, monks are their own category, who have testes but don't use them. (a castrated man was worth even less than a woman and lost the right to own property) 3y
annamatopoetry 8) what I'm trying to draw a picture of here is that gender has had different definitions and looked huuugely different from how we think of it today. and human biology is a mess, a gradient between two end point where there is some slight crowding towards the sides but no clear lines. gender, any attempt at gender, is really just trying to create some rules and overlay those on the chaos of human variation 3y
annamatopoetry 9) and whichever gender system we chose, it's going to have to draw lines somewhere, and that somewhere is always going to be wrong, someone will always end up on the 'wrong' side of a line. the gender binary is especially false because it tries to shove it all into two categories, but really no system is quite enough. does that help? 3y
Buechersuechtling @annamatopoetry Thank you so much for your detailed explanation. I cannot yet say how far it helps. I need to think about it, chew on it, “digest” your points. Give me some time. I promise to come back to you. 3y
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Buechersuechtling
Buechersuechtling
Untenrum frei | Margarete Stokowski
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It‘s a while ago that everywhere I went, I stumbled across this book wherein author and Spiegel-Online-columnist Margarete Stokowski explains what it‘s like to grow up as a girl in Germany. I thought I give the Blinks a try and immediately noticed that in my opinion there‘s stuff for discussion in it. Already in the introduction, I found statements I agree to and others I consider being exaggerated to support her stance.

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