Week One of Five

[birch_household]

So, here's a series of five more in depth questions.

1) Name something that everyone knows about [insert body name here] that simply isn't true about all the front runners. How did this thing get to be "the truth" about [body name]? Is it something that matters to the front runners? Is it something that people would ever want to change?

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[absen]

[Body name] is a lesbian. This was an easy one to choose, but thinking about all the things that people in general know about us as a 'person' and that's probably the forefront of what others think about. We get referred to as 'the lesbian' at work, simply because both we and our partner system are in female bodies, so it's kind of obvious where it comes from.

Yes, it matters to some of the front-runners. Kita especially has a hard time with the fact that we're identified as lesbians. She's very religious, and that's something she wrestles with.

Would we ever want to change it? Probably not... unless the change meant we could choose to identify completely gender neutral and therefore would not be either lesbian, nor gay, and would simply be in love.

[underlankers]

That we are politically either liberal or conservative, depending on who we talk to. And that we must be the extremes of both. It's humorous because all Imperials are died-in-the-wool absolutists, and all humans tend to various ideologies, and we've only a few real Liberal Democracy supporters here.

Would we want to change it? If we meet more absolutists, sure. If not? No.

H'vorxixnon H'ven Soroundon.

[myorp]

most people, when they meet us for the first time think that we are gay. i am very feminine and kent is geeky. we have a good sense of style and our sense of humour sometimes reinforces this idea as well.

usually it doesn't bother us but if there's a girl we are interested in and she thinks we are gay then that's a problem.

also, it seems that with most of the girls we've actually had relationships with, eventually the novelty of finding a "guys who acts gay but is really straight" wears off and they want to go back to treating us like their "gay friend". the idea that that should be "ok" with us for some reason.

also in most respects they have wound up dating guys who are very stereotypically masculine after us. its very frustrating and has resulted in a lot of hurt for us, and feelings of romantic inferiority because of how "different" we are from most guys.

~kat for puzzles

[bbjkrss]

That the person who's body it is is a "smarty-pants." This is because in school, she used to try to answer *everything* and because most of the time when we were younger, we knew the answers to almost everything and we got good grades

[bookofselves]

Everyone knows that [body name] is an atheist.

Of our front-runners, one is agnostic, two are Christians of some variety, and one cannot make up his/her mind. I'm not sure if we have one atheist; we're certainly not all atheists.

This came to be the truth about [body name] partly because the main front-runner was an atheist for most of her childhood, which is probably why so many people believe it.

Also, because we grew up in a family of Unitarian Universalist atheists, it's been hard for two of us to accept that we were not one, and "coming out" as non-atheists to the family would be hard, almost as if we would disappoint them by becoming religious.

It's been easier to stay as people are accustomed to us. It has prevented our Christians from some expression of their beliefs, and I think we are going to have to change and break what everyone knows about [body name] someday. It's just a matter of doing so and staying consistent. That will be hard.