12-20-2009, 07:27 PM
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Infamous Member
How Do You Identify?: Human
Preferred Pronoun?: He
Relationship Status: Very Married
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Where I want to be
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Originally Posted by WicketWWarrick
You're right Corkey. It doesn't bother me in the sense that it makes me question myself - I know who I am - not male or female identified - but I just find it frustrating to once again facing an implied binary where I don't fit in one of the boxes. In so many ways around here we are careful not to construct binaries that it just surprises me, that's all.
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I agree with you my friend, so many times I said the same thing, but unless I put it in my profile, folks assumed a whole lot. I'm not particularly happy about having to choose, I'm Human and that should be enough, thing is it isn't. Don't know why and frankly I am tired of fighting about how I express my gender, is it really worth it in the end? For me no it isn't. I'm Me take it or leave it.
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