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27th September 2012

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Sometimes I feel like “man” and “woman” are just these stupid categories made up by society.  Well yeah, I mean, they are, that’s nothing new, but sometimes I get a really clear sense that I am a “woman” by default, like I am in the category “woman” not because of any particular personal or physical quality, but because I am not in the category “man.”

I’m not really interested in being in the category “man,” either, because—well, because my life experiences and observations of culture tell me it’s a pretty gross category to be in.  I don’t want to ape the oppressor and I don’t want to be defined by the oppressor.  I just wanna be.

I feel genderless, but that doesn’t even mean anything, does it?  Gender is…made up.  Made up but still powerful.  My body image, how I feel about the biologically “female” aspects of my body, that’s also confusing, but not to the point of dysphoria by any means.  I don’t want to be skinny, I know that much.  I wouldn’t mind being the size I am if it was all muscle.  Is that female?  Is that “feminine”?  Who cares though?  Does it matter?  It doesn’t make me sick though, it doesn’t keep me up at night.  I don’t want to co-opt other people’s experiences by calling it something it’s not, but it’s significant enough that my curiosity about it is, from time to time, piqued.

This has been a completely incoherent text post about gender identity and oppression, and now you can see why I don’t really discuss this seriously very often.

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    — Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
  6. tenderlumpling said: I know the feeling. I ID as cisfemale, but every gender test puts me in the androgyny category, so I go with it. I don’t purposefully mean to be androgynous, I just am. Also, down with the gender binary!
  7. brucebananeronawillgrahamcracker said: I’m going to curl up and take a nap on this post okay if that makes any sense as a response, also if it doesn’t but I hope maybe??
  8. davidbowiesdarksexualhabits said: Makes sense, I feel the same way at times, despite my longings to be a fabulous and gorgeous male specimen ;-)
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