Vacation.

Someone wrote…

I need to take a vacation from gender.

What’s your experience?

And what are you thinking about gender right now?


Posted by on September 29th, 2010 at 08:00 am

Category: your voice 12 comments »

12 Responses to “Vacation.”

  1. Keanan
    September 29th, 2010 at 11:42 am |

    I do too. The problem is that whenever I do go on a vacation, gender stuff follows me.

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  2. Jessica
    September 29th, 2010 at 12:19 pm |

    I was thinking earlier today about how, when I was a teenager, I had wanted so much to be an amphibian (from Kurt Vonnegut’s Welcome to the Monkey House, Unready to Wear) – that is someone who has left their body behind and is a non-corporeal entity.

    In that story, originally written in the 1950’s, people would enter bodies not originally their own. The possibility of entering a body of a different gender that of the body you were born with was not addressed in the story, but it was always part of my fantasy. You could be very tall or very small. It would be cool to inhabit the very limber body of a young person (if you’d been old) or to experience what an old body felt like (if you’d been young).

    That’d be an adventure and a hell of a vacation.

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  3. Anonymous
    September 29th, 2010 at 2:49 pm |

    I want to go on vacation as an amphibian! Hmm…wonder if you could just hang out in non-corporeal reality and be whatever you felt like…It’s funny…I was listening to “Holiday in Spain” by the Counting Crows when I saw this…

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  4. Anonymous
    September 29th, 2010 at 4:10 pm |

    Me too!

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  5. Meike
    September 29th, 2010 at 4:11 pm |

    I so need a vacation from gender. But like Keanan says, it does tend to follow you around. Kind of frustrating sometimes.

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    Jessica replied:
    September 29th, 2010 at 4:31 pm

    Got a mental picture of some dirty old mongrel who drools on your shoes and is always alert for table scraps. Someday I’ll have to give that old gender a bath and a good thorough brushing. It is a thoroughly disobedient gender and infuriatingly in your face at all the worst times. And don’t get me started about “being in heat!”

    Still, I keep the old critter about since it was a present from my folks.

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    Meike replied:
    September 29th, 2010 at 7:34 pm

    BAHAHAHA!!!! So true!!!

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    Hodge Podge replied:
    September 30th, 2010 at 8:13 am

    XD Love that, I now view my gender as a smelly dog

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  6. Jay
    September 29th, 2010 at 8:47 pm |

    Dang, can I come with you? A vacation from gender… sounds grand.

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  7. Zak
    September 30th, 2010 at 1:46 pm |

    I tried to take a vacation from gender, and kind of did for the last 6 months or so. It catches up to you. Sneaky bastard.

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  8. Anonymous
    September 30th, 2010 at 3:21 pm |

    Love the mongrel personification. That’s it.

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  9. Anonymous
    October 23rd, 2010 at 3:06 pm |

    the mongrel seems a fitting form… I’d say sometimes I’d feel like one; a werewolf but hardly the menacing sort, would that leave me as Benji or Lassie; scruff and fluff and dirty nails, more bark than bite and Timmy still trapped in a well; chasing the moon and trying to outrun the sun, but getting distracted by butterflies.

    But these little distractions mean the most sometimes… a vacation of sorts; a reflection on a lifetime.

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