In response to something ysabetwordsmith posted about a "metagender" character (link here), I wrote ( Read more... )

I've never really understood this whole "masculinity = fierce" thing. You know, the strong, fierce, scary warrior type? Because ( Read more... )

I just had a funny thought: An Ah'Koi Bahnis, new to Earth, doesn't really understand the concept of gender, keeps using the wrong pronouns. Gets frustrated at one frustrated human and goes "Well how do you expect me to know which you are? One guidebook says males have a grahbihn and females have a duen, but it is rude to ask. Another guidebook ( Read more... )

Went out today to do a few things, one of which was going to see my shrink. My ID has to be renewed soon, and she helped me by filling out and signing this form for me to get my gender designation changed on my ID from that horrible lying M to F. Now I just have to go into the DMV tomorrow and get my new ID ( Read more... )

For years I've known that if I want to make the body a little stronger, I can shift into Alex or Pi, because they're stronger than the rest of us.* And for pretty much that whole time I thought it was their masculinity. (Can you say "internalized misogyny"?) But then Alex began identifying as non-binary/gender fluid, and Pi began to identify as ( Read more... )

Text and picture reposted from this Tumblr post. It might make more sense if you read the Tumblr version, since I think this excerpt makes references to things in other peoples' comments, and I don't feel like reposting the entire thing here.

The original picture:


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You wake up one day and find out that there's no longer any visible external difference - biologically - between male and female humans. Think of what that would mean for gender.

This was cross-posted from http://fayanora.dreamwidth.org/1083478.html
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Reposting this comment because it is another case of a really good response ( Read more... )

Seanan McGuire has a great post:

Dear girls of the world today;

There is nothing wrong with you.

Everything I see, everything I read, everything I hear, is geared toward telling you that something is wrong with you. You're too fat. You're too thin. Your skin is terrible. You look too young. You look too old. You're too smart, you're too dumb, you ( Read more... )

Recently, one of my LJ "friends" was trying to "mansplain" at me in response to this post. He said: "I don't care if what I am uncomfortable with is unusual or the norm, if I don't like it and it doesn't change, I don't stay ( Read more... )