Queer Surge Protectors

[queerbychoice]

Hee, I was just assigned to look through a catalog of office products and came across this:



Yes, I need a queer surge protector! Considering all the heterosexist labeling of plugs and the sockets they fit into as being "male" or "female," and the accompanying implication that actual male and female human parts simply "don't work together" just like the plug and socket parts labeled "male" and "female" don't work together, it's really very important for surge protectors to start coming out as queer. Just wait till they start throwing huge surge protector pride parades.

This surge protector is not, in fact, actually being officially marketed as a queer surge protector. But it's perfectly obvious that some queer surge protector designer slyly slipped it past the heterosexual product approvers without telling them what it looks like.

Comments

[luinied.livejournal.com]

But what does that surge protector due to protect the rights of the truly oppressed? I.e., large blocky plugs that cover two or three outlets in a "normal" surge protector. I say it's past time the large and blocky demand equal treatment.

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[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Actually, aren't there some surge protectors that already have special extra-large spaces for the large and blocky? Or is that just discriminatory segregation rather than accommodation of physical difference?

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[piman.livejournal.com]

My UPS has the blocky spaces between the smaller ones. Though, my two surge protectors separate them, so apparently some work remains to be done for plug and socket rights.

[waltzingalong.livejournal.com]

It's like a surge protector wearing freedom rings!

[haolegirl.livejournal.com]

I added you awhile ago and I have to say that seeing that surge protector makes me laugh. Very cute.

[ex-fractals713.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA!
:)
If I had an office, I would so get one. :)

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[luinied.livejournal.com]

The rights of the blocky will not truly be assured until any outlet can provide power to any device, period.

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[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to shrink my friends list right now actually, but I don't mind being read.

[rhekarid.livejournal.com]

That surge protector is a fine piece of user-confusing hardware. I can just imagine all the people trying in vain to find colored plugs, thinking they have to match the sockets.

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[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

"Excuse me sir, do you sell power cords that run on purple electricity?"

[toppermost.livejournal.com]

that is SO CUTE!!

I remember the first time I heard plugs being referred to as male and female. It weirded me out. We should start calling them PENIS and VAGINA, just because that would totally offend so many people who have no problem with calling them male and female.

Isn't there a more scientific term for that shit?

[imperfectmanx.livejournal.com]

Eee! I like!

[chisparoja.livejournal.com]

yep and in computers, primary devices are called "master" and secondary devices are called "slaves". pretty clear who invented this nomenclature for sure.

though i think it's a bit funny that connectors with two male ends or two female ends are referred to as "male/male" and "female/female" plugs, and connectors with a female end and a male end is referred to as female-to-male or male-to-female. this makes me wonder if slash/fiction writers had anything to do with it. ;)

slightly off topic

[asrai-d.livejournal.com]

i had an argument with my father about the male and femaleness of certain plug ins. I think my camera has this "female" end (which they claim it is not) on both sides and I need the opposing end to connect my cam to the wall (long story there).

It's all wrong. IT"S A FEMALE END DAMN IT >>> DON"T ARGUE WITH ME!!! ... hehe ...

[aboxofmatches.livejournal.com]

thats neat

i have that surge protector and never thought of it that way...

its really come in handy...