{"id":1533,"date":"2005-07-14T09:50:58","date_gmt":"2005-07-14T09:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2005\/07\/14\/my_queer_dyke_cunt.html"},"modified":"2005-07-14T09:50:58","modified_gmt":"2005-07-14T09:50:58","slug":"my_queer_dyke_cunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/07\/14\/my_queer_dyke_cunt.html","title":{"rendered":"my queer dyke cunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I officially feel like an angry dyke because the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has deemed my identity &#8220;vulgar.&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2005\/07\/14\/MNGR7DNPOQ1.DTL\">In denying &#8220;Dykes on Bikes&#8221; a trademark, the attorney decided that &#8216;dyke&#8217; is offensive, scandalous and vulgar.<\/a>  I love how people in power are allowed to regulate the self-identification of marginalized populations.  Don&#8217;t they realize that we&#8217;ve spent generations trying to take back the terms that they have used to oppress us?  These are *their* terms and we&#8217;ve reclaimed them.  Now they&#8217;re ours.  And since they are now ours, they can oppress by regulating them.  Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> i&#8217;m an idiot and forgot to thank <a href=\"http:\/\/lawgeek.typepad.com\/lawgeek\/2005\/07\/pto_shows_polit.html\">Jason  Schultz<\/a> for keeping me abreast of all this.  And bless him for being willing to go to bat for us crazy dykes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/queer\" rel=\"tag\">queer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I officially feel like an angry dyke because the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has deemed my identity &#8220;vulgar.&#8221; In denying &#8220;Dykes on Bikes&#8221; a trademark, the attorney decided that &#8216;dyke&#8217; is offensive, scandalous and vulgar. I love how people in power are allowed to regulate the self-identification of marginalized populations. Don&#8217;t they realize that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}