The rest of the menu.

Someone wrote…

For me, choosing a gender pronoun is not like choosing whether I want the soup or sandwich. I want the soup, the sandwich, and the coleslaw too. And what’s on the rest of the menu?

What’s your experience?

And what are you thinking about gender right now?


Posted by on December 3rd, 2010 at 08:00 am

Category: your voice 2 comments »

2 Responses to “The rest of the menu.”

  1. Jessica
    December 3rd, 2010 at 2:46 pm |

    I know just how you feel. Pronouns are so accusatory.

    And I have known the eyes already, known them all
    The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
    And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
    When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
    Then how should I begin
    To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
    And how should I presume?

    (TS Eliot)

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  2. Nancy
    December 9th, 2010 at 8:44 am |

    Amen. Amen.

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