It was about time to get some additional medias involved here on this blog and what better way than sharing the fabulous Laci Green. For those unfamiliar with her, Laci Green is an awesome sex educator who among other things makes fantastic youtube videos about all kinds of topics. I'm only going to share one today, but I highly encourage you to go to her youtube channel and watch some more videos.
I chose this particular video to share because it mentions a lot of important issues that are worthy of your time. Some of these things include the male gaze, women's portrayal in advertising and what this blog is all about, what you can do about it!
So if you're still wanting more, check out some more videos! Most of Laci Green's videos are around 5 minutes in length and cover subjects from diets, slut shaming and dating advice, to how to choose a sex toy and where the g spot actually is.
Do y'all have any favorite Sex+ videos? Share them in the comments!
I appreciate the openness with which she talks about sex and many other topics, but sometimes Laci's videos strike me as a little shortsighted, even if she means well. As we've been told in various ways, intent does not equal impact, and while I am totally all about her frank discussion of usually shameful topics, sometimes I feel a little weird after watching one of her videos. In her video on period positivity/negativity (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1x5xvHmhqo) she seemed to follow a pattern of linking menstruation to nature which can be a really biologically essentialist tactic (it's sometimes used to invalidate trans women's womenhood by virtue of the fact that they don't menstruate.) I'm not saying she's doing it here, but the parallels she drew were strange to me.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I dunno...I totally validate people being grossed the hell out by their own menstruation, at least. I acknowledge that, yes, it's a perfectly natural phenomenon, and I don't condone the type of misogynistic anti-period "grossness" rhetoric that we're all too familiar with. At the same time, people who menstruate and don't identify as women are often incredibly dysphoric about it - as a trans man, it was always frustrating (hell, even during my short dabbling in identifying/presenting as a butch lesbian) to me to have to use "feminine hygiene" products when I was markedly masculine in my identity. The freaking *pads* had people with long hair and purses wearing dresses and heels running around. I guess what I'm saying is that, for some people, the feminine/female connotations associated with menstruation can be painful reminders of how society invalidates their gender because of their body. While Laci did a good job mostly avoiding cissexist language ("people who menstuate" is a great alternative to "women" when talking about period stuff) she did seem to encourage positivity about menstruation from her perspective as a cis woman, which, while I can understand it, felt alienating to me and I'm sure to others who feel less in touch with their menstrual cycles or capacity to menstruate.
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