I have to tell you about this chick I have a class with. Her name is Marissa. She feels it "inappropriately genders" her, despite the fact that she wears exclusively women's clothing and I think clothing makes a bigger gender statement than name (though the changing of names in the process of transitioning is a fairly important ritual). So she calls herself Mo. I'd actually be fine with just Mo as a nickname for Marissa (versus, I dunno, Missy), but the fact that she stated to our prof that she preferred Mo because of the gender statement... while not presenting herself as anything but a slightly femmey dyke... ::sigh:: It reminds me of that time you had a prof who objected to calling you Missy. But the opposite. I thought this would amuse you. I hope I succeeded. I can't spell.
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I have to tell you about this chick I have a class with. Her name is Marissa. She feels it "inappropriately genders" her, despite the fact that she wears exclusively women's clothing and I think clothing makes a bigger gender statement than name (though the changing of names in the process of transitioning is a fairly important ritual). So she calls herself Mo. I'd actually be fine with just Mo as a nickname for Marissa (versus, I dunno, Missy), but the fact that she stated to our prof that she preferred Mo because of the gender statement... while not presenting herself as anything but a slightly femmey dyke...
::sigh::
It reminds me of that time you had a prof who objected to calling you Missy. But the opposite. I thought this would amuse you. I hope I succeeded. I can't spell.
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