I have a lot of words this morning

[geozine]

The things I contemplate the most these days (apart from Mass Effect, money, and how long I can put off my homework) have to do with sexism, feminism, and communication.

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[geozine]

Haha. It's obviously all pretty crazy stuff. I don't usually like to refer to myself as a woman or a girl because I guess I always thought it was limiting to be one. I'd rather just be a person. The feelings that go with "woman" and "girl" don't always reflect how I feel, and neither do words like "man" or "boy". I imagine it's the same for a lot of people. It should be impossible for a person's identity to always reflect one side of a binary every day all the time. We really shouldn't have to pigeonhole how people feel based on whether we call them a man or a woman. But people will. I think I call myself a woman in these superlong essays because I'm trying to strip the word of its traditional meaning. I know enough about who I am and what I'm like to know that "woman" is not an adequate word for my identity. I figure if I keep using it it'll lose most of it's meaning to me and just turn into a kind of vague word which refers more to some kind of club that I happen to be in, rather than to a supposed summation of myself. I do this not because people are never going to stop calling me a woman, but because I don't want to go through life with the habit of presuming that whether someone is called a man or a woman is deterministic of their intrinsic identity. Identity is more complicated than that. And if I can't believe that I, myself, am not defined by the words used to refer to me, then I certainly can't do it for anybody else. I'm trying to learn to view everyone as just a person, no matter what they're called.

As for my gender identity idk. I think about it sometimes and then I decide it's not worth thinking about because putting words to it seems dumb. tbh I feel like anybody who puts words to it is either oversimplifying, or doesn't really care to be too accurate. If I had to describe it it would probably look something like a skinny power ranger...or The Truth from FMA only less creepy...
Huh. You know now it makes a lot of sense why I tend to like characters whose faces you never see.