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I have come to believe, increasingly over the last three years, that we no longer need religion and that, honestly, it is doing more harm than good in the world today.
It seems is incredulous to me that this country is considering Donald Trump a serious candidate for president. There, I said it. I just had to.
Let’s consider Nancy. She was a healthy baby born to adoring parents. The doctor said, “it’s a girl!” at birth. The parents raised her with all the love in the world, dressed her in pink frocks and purple ribbons and ensured that she had everything that any girl her age would want. Suppose Nancy grew up feeling increasingly disassociated and dissatisfied with her gender, but she kept quiet about her feelings for as long as she could. Suppose Nancy applied to study at one of the best women’s colleges in the country and got in. While at college, suppose Nancy discovered that she really ought to identify as male and found the courage to make the transition to Nathaniel.
During an early morning Joe Van Gogh coffee run, I happened to hear a group of students making costume plans for Halloween. It would have remained an entirely mundane event unworthy of mention if not for the costume they were discussing. Some of the men were planning to dress up as Caitlyn Jenner as a joke.
There has been a ton of attention in recent times devoted to the phenomenon of fanfiction. A lot of it is based around the legal issues associated with it. Some argue that it infringes on the copyright of the writer of the original work, and there is a growing movement fighting against such legal challenges. The Organization of Transformative Works (OTW), a not-for-profit that also runs the Archive of Our Own, one of the most popular fanfiction sites, works with law agencies to categorize fanfics as pieces of “transformative” work, no longer subject to copyright restrictions. Amazon recently launched a platform called “Kindle Words” that allows fanfic writers to work with copyright owners and derive commercial benefits from their work.
I came to the United States a year ago to get my master’s degree with a lot of expectations from the “land of the free and the home of the brave.” I am from India, and I grew up in a typical, highly orthodox (read religious) middle class Indian household. Here’s some perspective for those of you who cannot relate to what that means: think arranged marriages. Think early religious indoctrination. Think sexist household chores assignment. Think reinforcement of the gender binary.
I have a bone to pick with the “feminists” of the world regarding the subject of the Strong Female Character. I have been growing increasingly frustrated at the portrayal of the Strong Female Character for a while now, but this frustration bubbled over after reading some of the “feminist” criticism thrown at Joss Whedon in response to the new Avengers: Age of Ultron film.
Why are we as a society far more forgiving of a woman dressing in men's clothes than we are of the opposite?
