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I& #39;m tired and I& #39;m sad and I& #39;m angry and I don& #39;t get enough sleep. So we& #39;re going to say some things that will upset people this morning.
Sounds like fun, right?
Sounds like fun, right?
Nonbinary is not "gender number 3." It& #39;s not both. It& #39;s neither. It& #39;s "I don& #39;t fit in your little box."
But people, if they acknowledge it at all, treat it as it& #39;s own little box with its own constraints.
But people, if they acknowledge it at all, treat it as it& #39;s own little box with its own constraints.
See also: pronouns.
I have slight preferences but I don& #39;t feel any deep attachment to any of them. And I don& #39;t feel comfortable wearing them as a badge so that people can put me in their little boxes.
I have slight preferences but I don& #39;t feel any deep attachment to any of them. And I don& #39;t feel comfortable wearing them as a badge so that people can put me in their little boxes.
People are going to do it anyway. Because of what I look like. Because of how I talk. Because of how high my voice is. Because of my marriage. Because of my ethnic origins.
I don& #39;t like being made to help them.
I don& #39;t like being made to help them.
I fully support people displaying pronouns, and I insist that you respect them. But I& #39;m really uncomfortable with the social compulsion to wear them.
I don& #39;t want to tell you what box to put me in. I don& #39;t want to live in one. I just want to be a person.
I don& #39;t want to tell you what box to put me in. I don& #39;t want to live in one. I just want to be a person.
I& #39;ve never been good at defining the boundaries of who I am. I could not choose between science and engineering, classical languages and history, linguistics and anthropology. I graduated with 2 majors and was 1 course short of, I think, 3 others.
"Ah but you chose to work in one of those fields!"
What I chose was to be able to live and eat in our postmodern quasicapitalist dystopia.
It& #39;s a job, not a calling. I& #39;m not the Slayer.
What I chose was to be able to live and eat in our postmodern quasicapitalist dystopia.
It& #39;s a job, not a calling. I& #39;m not the Slayer.
I just want to be a person and I just want to be left alone to be who I am, whoever that is.
And, you know what?
I also get to feel disgusting and ashamed for even saying any of this, because more often than not, the little box I get put in is the one with all the benefits.
So maybe, at heart, I& #39;m just a bigot, who wants to be left alone with his privileges.
I also get to feel disgusting and ashamed for even saying any of this, because more often than not, the little box I get put in is the one with all the benefits.
So maybe, at heart, I& #39;m just a bigot, who wants to be left alone with his privileges.
Anyway, go read this thread. It& #39;s more important and less full of self-loathing: https://twitter.com/TheMedievalDrK/status/1300767884071841794?s=20">https://twitter.com/TheMediev...
