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Today I had a bizarre exchange
Guy: I'm closing the gate now
Me: I'm waiting for such and such, can I wait over there if you're closing the gate now?
Guy: why are you talking to me like that!?
Me: what? (thinking, "is it rude to ask for a place to wait if I have to?")
Guy: how old are you?
Me: 22
Guy: 22!? why are you talking to me like a 10 year old girl!? Come on, speak normally!
Me: uh... where should I wait when you've closed this gate?
Guy: over there
etc etc
So I pondered what was going on because, yeah, I know I sound childish when I talk, but I've never had anyone yell at me for it before. Then I realized, he, like just about everyone else in the past few months probably thought I was a boy. I'd react much more oddly if a boy started talking like I do than if a girl did I guess. He probably thought I was pretending to talk that way or something. Pretty odd though.
In the last 3 months or so I've been addressed with male pronouns so many more times than I've been addressed with female pronouns. Just this morning actually I had a funny incident. I was buying something in a store and the clerk kept calling me "he" to the person behind me for various reasons "he was here first" and "this one is his" etc. Finally the man behind me turned to me, looked down at my chest, then back up to my face and looked really confused. I was done at that point so I just walked away.
Day before yesterday I walked into the shoe store and a little girl about 4 years old looked up at me and said, "are you a boy or a girl?" I was about to say, "yep" when I saw her mother was there so I said, "I'm a girl" instead.
Stuff like that happens every day now. Funny because when I had really short hair, it didn't happen ever. I wonder what changed in the last three months.
Guy: I'm closing the gate now
Me: I'm waiting for such and such, can I wait over there if you're closing the gate now?
Guy: why are you talking to me like that!?
Me: what? (thinking, "is it rude to ask for a place to wait if I have to?")
Guy: how old are you?
Me: 22
Guy: 22!? why are you talking to me like a 10 year old girl!? Come on, speak normally!
Me: uh... where should I wait when you've closed this gate?
Guy: over there
etc etc
So I pondered what was going on because, yeah, I know I sound childish when I talk, but I've never had anyone yell at me for it before. Then I realized, he, like just about everyone else in the past few months probably thought I was a boy. I'd react much more oddly if a boy started talking like I do than if a girl did I guess. He probably thought I was pretending to talk that way or something. Pretty odd though.
In the last 3 months or so I've been addressed with male pronouns so many more times than I've been addressed with female pronouns. Just this morning actually I had a funny incident. I was buying something in a store and the clerk kept calling me "he" to the person behind me for various reasons "he was here first" and "this one is his" etc. Finally the man behind me turned to me, looked down at my chest, then back up to my face and looked really confused. I was done at that point so I just walked away.
Day before yesterday I walked into the shoe store and a little girl about 4 years old looked up at me and said, "are you a boy or a girl?" I was about to say, "yep" when I saw her mother was there so I said, "I'm a girl" instead.
Stuff like that happens every day now. Funny because when I had really short hair, it didn't happen ever. I wonder what changed in the last three months.