Feb 1 2010
I took this shot in the Castro in San Francisco. He shows how very subtle effects of eyebrow shaping and (i think) eyeliner can make a huge impact
@polly Well female at birth would just be female people and/or implies you can become female later.
I am taking an agnostic position about whether anyone is female or can become female. For me that is the beauty of FAB as Female At Birth. It points backward at origins but makes assumptions about current sex/gender/body. In queer SF FTM’s are a much more visible presence than MTF’s. I feel comfortable referring to them as Female At Birth but I would never hang the label female on them.
I have decided that the terms Male and Female are no longer useful for communication. There are three main definitions of the Male/Female duality
1) Traditional | Female = Female At Birth (this is an immutable essence)
2) Transsexual | Female = Female At Birth – Female to Male Transsexuals + Male To Female Transsexuals (Also an immutable essence)
3) Social Construction | Female has no ontological reality. A baby is female if it is assigned female. An MTF is Female when femaleness is projected upon them. (more…)
I talk about the Troll wars between the RadFem Blogoshere and the Serranoan Trans-feminist Blogosphere | an obnoxious trans activism, I talk about ‘Cis Guilt’ as homologous to ‘White Guilt’
Jan 17, 2009
Aria Blue has written a challenge in my comments.
Yeah, here’s the thing Jasper. I was born physiologically “different” than you, and your denial of that just makes you look silly. We have no “shared origin at birth”; your claim is an attack on my personal sovereignty as well as reality.
Jan 1, 2010 Here is another example of San Francisco’s Queer Femme Fat Fashion. Her outfit is great with the Hot Pink and Animal Print combo. The hair and makeup take it to another level.
I am intrigued by the silhouette. It is 50′s racy with her ankles and neckline.
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What band is she in? Is it Mighty Slim Pickens?
I took it at SomArts for the Queer Arts Festival.
Her style reminds me of the styles coming out of San Francisco Fat Activist Burlesque and Pinups. This is another example of how a strong Femme Persona can be expressed in exuberant Fat Fashion.
Dec 31 2009
This was taken at Four Barrels on Valencia. I love M.’s outfit. Queer Fat Girls in San Francisco are creating a new sex-positive fat fashion.
This outfit is typical in a few ways:
1) Fitted silhouette – The leggings and dress emphasize her form rather than hiding it. She has a great hourglass form and she shows it. She is not running from her beautiful belly like mainstream fat fashion tries. The belly can’t be hidden on any body without losing the body’s lines.
2) Femme – Femmy clothing works well on really femmy bodies. I see fitted dresses, skirts and leggings
3) Bright Colors and Makeup- I love M.’s Hot Pink Leggings. Her pinup style makeup is perfect.
Overall she achieves a sexy confidence by embracing her form and working with it.
Dec 29 2009
This was my Bondage-a-Go-Go outfit. In the end It was too sexy for the club. A lot of women liked it, but a few of the straight Males got aggressive. I had crossed a scary line where I loose my “human” status. Twice boys told their girlfriends to stop interacting with me. A blatant, social performance of othering which is more intense than the simple stinkeye. I was glad that I was not alone with any of those hostile Males. That is the risk of sexing it up as a Mab Femme.
I have recorded earlier Bondage-a-Go-Go experiences in my Queerpedia. (more…)
Dec 2009
I took this shot at Bondage-a-Go-Go, the fetish danceclub in the SOMA district of San Francisco. It is one of my recent favorite photos. It makes me love photography again. Alison was inside getting here ass flogged in the BDSM play space. With her beautiful, big, round ass she never has any trouble finding Mab (Male at Birth) or Fab (Female at Birth) play partners.
Polly at verymadcows has responded to my call for dialogue. I am going to quote Polly extensively and comment in line. Poly is very complimentary. Thank you Polly. I am going to focus on our disagreements, but I think we actually agree on a lot of things.
Jasper’s interpretation of female sexuality is just the same as most of the rest of the human race. Jasper thinks active female sexuality doesn’t exist.
And this is why Jasper, and large swathes of the rest of the male human race are so disturbed by lesbians. Not political lesbians, actual lesbians. Ones that like cunts. (more…)
All of MAB-femininity (Male At Birth) is treated badly in feminist spaces, especially by lesbian feminism. Julia Serrano called this transmisogyny. I feel that it is much simpler, it is simply anti-MAB bigotry.
jasperswardrobe.com
She shows the lie that Male Femininity must Pass to be beautiful. She is making herself vulnerable. This is the authenticity that somatic females accept. This is how you become woman, when you invite other women in to enculturate you in the the patterns of interaction and speech of the Woman Identity Category.
A Letter To Wendy Brown
I am reading States Of Injury by Wendy Brown. Wendy paints a world of Identity Politics and Feminism seeped in Nietzschian Resentment. Instead of trying to explain her to you, I write her a video letter and let you listen in.
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Nietzsche wrote A Genealogy Of Morality (GOM) in 1880, a very interesting time. The stranglehold that Calvinist identity politics had on German public morality was beginning to slip. Bismarck had unified Germany under Prussian rule only ten years earlier. The “imaginary community” of the German Nation was being created. Nationalist and Populist politics were destabilizing all of the regimes of Europe that could not harness the New Nationalism to their cause.
Nietzsche witnessed an earlier era of identity politics when the newly minted secular identities of class and nation were gaining ground on the Calvinist and Lutheran identities. He despises the protestant morality which he grew up with. He calls it a slave morality which he traces back to the persecution of the early Christians within the Roman Empire. A slave morality is a sort of intense passive aggressive identity. As marginalized people the early christian theology identified with a victim status. It tried to make powerlessness into a virtue and dreamed of vengeance on the Sinful Roman empire. Nietzsche sees the Calvinist Identity as identifying with being victimized by the sinful, the powerful and the secular and dreaming of the ultimate vengeance fire and brimstone. In Contemporary California we might say that they “gave their power away” and embraced the role of the victim. Nietzsche finds this Victim Theology in most (all?) of the identity politics of his contemporaries, including christian moralism, anti-semitism, working-class populism, nationalism, socialism, anarchism and feminism. He felt that each of these movements had internalized the original Judeo-Christian victim cult.
At the time Nationalism was considered a progressive movement of liberation and modernism. Identifying with one’s nation was a new and modern identity which has started spreading across Europe with Napoleon earlier that century. Those new identities of German, Hungarian, Serbian and Croatian were very fresh and all based on cults of imagined victimization by another group. Hatred towards another group which is perceived to have power over your own “imagined community”, that was and is the basis of Identity Politics.
The Right Wing Transwomen have been disputing the authenticity of my womanness. See this vitriolic post by Suzan
There is a misogynistic dick trying to make a name for hmself by running around claiming to be a lesbian
Jasper has a collection of photos that show him to be a sort of creapy pervert exercising the male gaze in a manner that constitutes a virtual visual rape of the women he objectifies.
Put up or STFU, Jasper. Real people with transsexualism or transgenderism commit their lives and bodies to it.
Notice the right wing trope of calling art photography perverted. I exhibited at the National Queer Arts Festival, thank you very much. Judge my work for yourselves.
As I wrote in my last post: If you recognize my authenticity I will recognize yours!
If you deny my authenticity I will deny yours!
You see Suzan, I do not believe that political correctness serves transgender people. I am more of a Bash Back kind of woman. You degender me, I degender you.
Suzan you say I am man, misogynist and pervert. I say that you are a man, and I find your attempt to speak for all women bigotted and chauvinistic.
Either we are inclusive, in which case we are both women, or we can have a narrow definition of woman as somatically-female, in which case you are a man trying to embody a sterotypical idea of womanness. You choose!
I would also like to point out that the Wingnut Transwomen are constantly degendering Monica Helms as “Mr. Helms”. See this nasty post by Just Jennifer.
So Jennifer I would like to formally add you to my honor role of biggoted somatic males trying to appropriate and reserve womanness for your narrow minded selves
Ariablue is right, the transgender are becoming terrified we have finally stood up to the nonsense they are. We’ve organized and our numbers increase by the day,…
This quote is from a right wing gender fundamentalist on the blog sophiaofthescythes.wordpress.com. Kate represents a Transgender hating group of transsexual fundamentalists who reject the legitimacy of all non-operative trans-people.
They go under the labels HBS, Women Born Transsexual, Classical Transsexual and “Real” Transsexual. They are filled with hate for Transgenders and represent a transphobic and homophobic movement among transsexual women.
sophia of the scythes has become a refuge for this right wing hate faction. Sophia wrote a long post in which she mischaracterizes my viewpoints. I do not think she has even tried to understand them. She just falsely associates my views with Zucker and Blanchard, the hate figures of their proto-fascist movement. She then goes on to associate me with reparative therapy. I will not bother to repeat that nonsense.
She blatantly misquotes me and then declines to give a link to my video. Hate figures like her are not really interested in anyone checking the original source. Unfortunateley, this crap is being quoted on other forums
I will correct the misconception that I think Transsexuality is social.
I accept Swaab’s research on the hypothalmus difference between transwomen and typical males.
Unfortunately the “real” transsexuals are misinterpreting Swaab’s results. He has never dissected the brain of non-transsexual transgenders.
The “Real” Transsexuals have zero evidence when they say they have a different Brain chemistry from me.
I believe that when Swaab’s research is extended it will be shown that he has found a biological basis for instinctual gendered behavior, not transsexuality.
The comments are comical.
The “Real” Transsexuals start out ignorantly bashing me, all transgenders and the LGBT movement. This one from Kate was particularly nasty:
All I can say is that the most appropriate thing to do with [Jasper]would be to torture him with ‘reparative therapy’ for his own good and maybe some shocks and drugs for good measure.
Here is one from Sophia
I have come to the conclusion that Jasper is a misogynist
That has to be that funniest thing I have read. Hate has clearly adled Sophia’s brain. Whatever….
Laura
Jasper says that transsexual women should accept that they were born men.
You people really don’t get. I said accept that you are born biologically, somatically-male and biologically, behaviorally-female. I am saying that we are biologically both male and female. Man is a gender identity. None of us are men.
susan says
Jasper isn’t even transgender. Mister Jasper is nothing but a piggish misogynistic dickwad.
That’s classy!
Halfway in though it becomes a fistfight between Lisa of QuestioningTransphobia and the proto-fascist “Real” Transsexuals. The true transgender hate came out of the closet and gets directed at Lisa.
It is instructive to read, if you want to see how transphobic this right-wing transsexual movement is.
update Unfortunately the Feministe moderator has chosen not to publish my link to these videos. So watch the videos that Feminste decided were to dangerous for you to see.
