Not male.

Someone wrote…

I am not male. I am a human with a penis.

What’s your experience?

And what are you thinking about gender right now?


Posted by on December 21st, 2010 at 08:00 am

Category: your voice 8 comments »

8 Responses to “Not male.”

  1. Jessica
    December 21st, 2010 at 11:54 am |

    I can so empathize with this. I am a person. Beyond that, I am lots of things, being male or female is way, way down the list. I am not defined by my anatomy. I refuse to conform to traits based on labels, especially labels applied to me by other people.

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    Redhead replied:
    December 22nd, 2010 at 12:54 am

    nothing to add but : YEAH!! speaking from my heart !

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  2. Sam
    December 21st, 2010 at 1:05 pm |

    Right there with you.

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  3. Erin
    December 22nd, 2010 at 1:15 am |

    You and me both. Isn’t it kind of sad how something like that “has to mean something” about us? I mean, if we all got to choose who got what bitties when they came into this world, who wouldn’t have picked something with not even a hint of a resemblance to real-world human genitalia? (and I don’t mean the real-world spectrum of “ambiguous genitalia”–I mean something like tentacles).

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    Elle replied:
    December 22nd, 2010 at 4:05 pm

    I don’t know if having a penis makes me less of a woman, but I sure as hell know it didn’t make me any more of a man.

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    risurisu replied:
    December 23rd, 2010 at 5:29 am

    Tentacles +1!

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  4. Naomi
    December 29th, 2010 at 4:02 pm |

    So much of what I want people to understand reads exactly like this.

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  5. Ani
    January 20th, 2011 at 9:10 am |

    I love this so much.

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