Circus Freaks and Alice Dreger's Hermaphrodite Show

This view is a bit extreme but makes its point. To those who are unfamiliar with Alice Dreger, she has written a few works on intersex (for those unfamiliar with the term, "intersex" refers to people who were born with some combination of both gender physical characteristics) and was part of the admin at Intersex Society of North America (ISNA). Her work has tended to be respectful as a whole, although I disagree with the term that she is now championing ("DSD," which actually stigmatizes it more than the term "intersex" -- there are times, i.e. media and early self-identification, when the terms are important) and her tendency to call upon the "freakshow" mentality to draw attention. That's all easy for her to do... she's not intersexed.

The exhibit described is being put on in conjunction with Michigan State University. ( http://www.artmuseum.msu.edu/circus/ ) The following is quoted from Curtis E. Hinkle at Intersexualite.org ( http://www.intersexualite.org/Dreger_Freak_Show.html ):

Circus Freaks and Alice Dreger’s Hermaphrodite Show
Alice Dreger, one of the most well-known intersex activists (who is not intersexed) will be giving a lecture relating to Disorders of Sex Development (the term she has advised doctors and professionals to call us). This lecture will be part of:

Kresge Art Museum's "Circus: The Art of the 'Strange & Curious' " exhibit. The exhibit will end with a showing of the film “Freaks”.

I have just a few questions:

1)How would women feel if the most well-known feminist was a man?

2)How would women feel if this man totally dismissed their experiences as irrelevant and was working to not only label them as inferior but genetically defective (which is what Dreger’s DSD terminology and guidelines are about)?

3)How would women feel if this famous “feminist” who was a man went about calling women pejorative names without asking them how they felt about those insulting labels?

4)How would women feel if this same feminist man was giving a lecture on feminism at an exhibit of explicit pornographic art objectifying women from an historical perspective?

5)How would women feel if this exhibit ended with a showing of “Deep Throat”?

Would women denounce this? I am certain that many would. And as an intersexed person, I am denouncing this upcoming lecture of Dreger's.

I can see some valid points in Dreger's lecture but having a non-intersexed person who will be calling me offensive names surrounded by pictures of circus freaks is not what I call intersex activism.