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Cameron Dunkin finds gender to be more pivotal to his being than most. An ‘outed’ homosexual, this third-year Political Studies student knows first hand the difficulty of finding an identity in an engendered society.
Raised in a devoutly Christian environment, Cameron found no room for gender deviancy in his religious training as well as his education. However, Cameron believes that gender is more about “interpretation” of certain passages from the Bible, than the actual passages themselves. He sees gender as “defining,” especially in a society where he says “men were expected to be men and women, women.”
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January 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
(1) You start sounding/acting/breathing like
your roommate.
(2) Cleaning becomes the ultimate
procrastination.
(3) Highlighters become a
toy.
(4) Receiving mail is the
highlight of the week.
(5) Studying in the atrium is studying in silence.
(6) Your movie collection doubles from the time you move in.
(7) Walking from Northwest to Neufeld classifies as your
workout.
(8) Kiddy pools become cool again.
(9) You eat from the three basic food groups: ice cream,
cookies and French fries.
(10) The best entertainment is looking outside your window.
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“I know I’m being such a tourist, but I promised my friend back home!”
With this lame disclaimer, my friend stepped into a cubicle in a Japanese public bathroom and took a picture of a squatty potty made of pink porcelain (apparently pink is a universally-recognized gender specific colour). There is one thing positive about being a tourist in Japan: you can get away with taking pictures of squatty potties.
This anecdote is to prove that most of my North American friends have this idea of how squatty potties are gross, uncivilized, or, to say it more mildly, “interesting.” Thus, I have ventured into unveiling the mysteries of squatty potties and their superiority.
