I wish gender were like that.
Someone wrote…
When I came out as gay, a couple people were surprised. They said they never really thought of me as being straight or gay – to them I was “just Jes.” I wish gender were like that.
What’s your experience?
Posted by julian on May 24th, 2009 at 08:00 am
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May 24th, 2009 at 11:16 pm |
Maybe gender is more ingrained into our lives than orientation — we don't have to imagine people in relationships, but we gender people all the time through pronouns and names. I think my friends never really saw me as a woman, but it's hard to get them out of the habit of using "she" and "her".
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May 25th, 2009 at 8:13 pm |
My favorite part about this is that because of the use of 'were', gender is implicitly plural. It makes me think.
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