Profile: Marion

Marion

You can call me… Marion

I identify as… A foppish dandy. Mostly human. Not particularly interested in gender, but I like to make fun of it.

As far as third-person pronouns go, … At the moment I use fi, fo, and fum. As in, fe fi fo fum, I smell the blood of a gender-variant person from England. Although I’m actually from California. If that’s too weird for you, ey em eir eirs.

I’m attracted to… Human beings who identify as at least partly female. I don’t really care about the bits and bobs, but I do love women.

When people talk about me, I want them to… Respect me. My sister is transgendered, MtF, and all too often I’ve noticed that some family members will use female pronouns in her hearing range, but openly and purposefully use the male ones behind her back.
At the moment I don’t care much about pronouns, but in general I want people to deny my wishes about how I’m reffered to around me, or not at all.

I want people to understand… that gender doesn’t define people. It seems like people will say that they don’t hold with gender stereotypes and that a woman can be anything she wants to be, while at the same time balking if someone suggests that a woman can be something other than a woman.

And at the same time I want people to understand that gender is fun. It’s like a mental toy – like modeling clay, in fact. It’s colorful and you can sculpt it to look like various things and you can break it into lots of little pieces. And I think you should, because our genders are our genders and we need to stop thinking that we can’t do what we like with them.

About Marion
Marion lives in Northern California. It is not sunny. It rains frequently and fi would appreciate it if everyone stopped calling it sunny.

That said. Fi volunteers at a library, which is clearly a secret identity to cover up fum life as a superhero, called Superpig. Superpig is a pirate and a very loud ninja but mostly a Mountie. Other facts about fi include that fi has fum Firefox language set to Spanish even though fi does not speak it – it got that way accidentaly and now it’s stuck.

The picture is from when fi played Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace. Fi likes that a lot of audience members have told fo that they didn’t realize fi was female until the curtain call (when fi squealed girlishly out of glee).

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Posted by on March 8th, 2010 at 04:00 pm

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9 Responses to “Profile: Marion”

  1. the raven

    dear me. what a lovely creature you are. and “fi, fo, fum” may be my new favorite pronoun set…

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  2. Louche

    “that gender doesn’t define people. It seems like people will say that they don’t hold with gender stereotypes and that a woman can be anything she wants to be, while at the same time balking if someone suggests that a woman can be something other than a woman.”

    Well-said. Doesn’t make much sense. People will say a lot of things are not intrinsic to the sex of a person, but they’re convinced there’s something that is.

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  3. Rebecca/Beck

    You know, I’ve always thought that I have an inner foppish dandy somewhere. It just needs money to buy the clothing it wants.

    As a Lit student, the gender pronouns (fe) fi fo fum are endless fun, although I’m not sure how to use them.

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  4. William

    I recognise you from AVEN! (Or else there are two beautiful self-defined foppish dandies using the pronouns fe, fo, fum :) )

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  5. Jack

    Ha, you sound fabulous – great photo, and well-spoken too!

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  6. Mark

    Oh goodness, I like you. =D

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  7. Keena

    Bwahah. You are absolutely amazing, dear. And wonderful to look at. ;D

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  8. C

    You sound awesome!

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  9. Corvus

    Ha I love this one.

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