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11:18pm March 12, 2014

I think maybe I was right.

I probably shouldn’t write about my experiences of gender in public.

I also probably shouldn’t read people’s posts about gender.

If I do the first, I piss people off, almost always.

If I do the second, I nearly always run into discussions about how people with my (lack of) gender either don’t really exist or are bad in some way.

I was just discussing this with a friend of mine offline, someone who literally never discusses their experience of gender in public.  (I won’t go into details, but from what I’ve seen they have really good reason to avoid such discussions.)

Notes:
  1. shinoteki reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
  2. clatterbane reblogged this from alliecat-person and added:
    Exactly. I don’t really have a side. I don’t expect other people to line themselves up that way, either. Though I will...
  3. alliecat-person reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    What youneedacat said. TBH I didn’t read the OP very closely and was responding to tangents on tangents, like Amanda...
  4. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from thiscrookedhouse and added:
    That’s all well and good, and I think everyone involved in the discussion has acknowledged that maybe we shouldn’t have...
  5. thiscrookedhouse reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    The issue wasn’t you talking about your experiences with gender. Talking about experiences with gender is great. The...
  6. autiecommie reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    “If I do the second, I nearly always run into discussions about how people with my (lack of) gender either don’t really...
  7. feliscorvus reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    Agreed re. across-the-board solutions being generally damaging (like most things that try and compress reality, they...
  8. soilrockslove reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    this And the main thing I see is that if clothing has any other strong characteristics (besides gender) like being very...