Profile: Wing
You can call me… Wing
I identify as… genderqueer, bisexual, Christian, the odd one out, generally pretty awesome.
As far as third-person pronouns go, … I am totally okay with anything you want to use. Generally, if you think you’ve accidentally offended me, then I am probably secretly smiling and flattered.
I’m attracted to… nerdy, smart, easy-going folks. Also, folks who play fiddles and banjos.
When people talk about me, I want them to… realize that the things they are talking about probably aren’t that big of a deal to me.
I want people to understand… that my gender identity and my sexuality operates like a giant probability distribution. Sometimes I am more of a boy, sometimes I’m more of a girl, sometimes I love everyone, sometimes I just want to curl up in a ball and never talk to anyone ever again. And sometimes even when I feel like it’s just not practical to wear a fluffy black skirt to climb up to the loft of an old barn, I do anyway. I know you have expectations and get confused when I don’t act predictably weird or whatever, but things change all the time. And that’s totally okay.
About Wing
Wing lives in New England and teaches math at a boarding school on a farm. He does wear pink patchwork skirts to work. Also, he writes and draws and talks about things on the Internet.
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Category: profiles 12 comments »
November 11th, 2011 at 12:50 pm |
Awesome profile! Love the skirt and work boot combo.
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November 11th, 2011 at 4:08 pm |
I love putting on skirts for “inappropriate” tasks like hiking a mountain, riding a bike, and building stone walls. There is something wonderful about being able to complete these tasks while wearing something deemed frilly and non-utilitarian.
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November 12th, 2011 at 1:20 am |
Yes! So I am not the only person who thinks that sexual orientation would be best modeled as a probability distribution! Though I think that may be an oversimplification as this model as I have envisioned it does not seem to adequately account for asexuality.
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InfinitySquared replied:
November 15th, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Maybe asexuality could be a degenerate case?
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November 13th, 2011 at 10:14 pm |
I graduated in ’05 from the same school. :) Is it sad that I’d recognize that porch any day? I’m glad to see our little school on the hill top is keeping on keeping on in all its fabulous, idiosyncratic, aliveness.
(I’m still in touch with some of my old teachers which is how I know about you even though we’ve never met. hope that’s not too creepy.)
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November 15th, 2011 at 1:12 pm |
Happy to meet another Christian around here. So many people are scared off by the idea that we’re all like those Westboro losers…
The way I figure it, if God made me the way I am, then doesn’t that mean it’s okay to be the way I am? I find it highly unlikely that the kind of person who socializes with prostitutes and “sinners” (seriously, my Bible has it in quotes) is not the kind of person who’ll reject somebody just because they’re halfway-in-between genders. In fact, I think gender diversity is probably part of the way God meant the world to be–part of the beauty of human diversity in general. If he’d wanted us to be all the same, he’d have made us that way. But he didn’t. And here we all are.
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November 15th, 2011 at 10:21 pm |
I just wanted to say that I love your MEH comic.
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Wing replied:
July 26th, 2012 at 10:47 pm
And I love your pony!
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November 18th, 2011 at 12:56 pm |
Cracking profile :) I, too, am a sucker for fiddle-players (sometimes).
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December 2nd, 2011 at 7:20 pm |
Wing is really awesome and I am delighted that God makes people like him :)
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January 11th, 2012 at 4:09 pm |
Hey, so you started teaching when I was a junior, I think. We all thought you were really cool.
Keep on being awesome, Wing.
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November 28th, 2013 at 9:52 pm |
best math teacher ever i swear to god XD
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