Shapes in my head (gender, activism, community, fate), plans for Beltane

Mar 15, 2010 19:46

Ended up doing a double shift last night due to a coworker in the ER, so I'm off this afternoon in exchange, and just woke up. Damn, is third shift quiet. Not just in terms of call volume, but in terms of chatter. 2nd usually has between two and five of us, depending on the day and the exact time, and it's full of laughter and chatting and ( Read more... )

poly, gender, household, daily life, contemplating

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sylvanfae March 16 2010, 00:47:59 UTC
Read and appreciated. =)

"Needs more woobly." I LOLed!

I get a sense of spacial shapes for concepts, too, but not so heavily, I think.

I'm currently pondering how to answer the census thing, since if Emi is "Person 1" we'd have a person of color with two poly partners, male and female. That hits all the ticky boxes except female "head of household". But if I am, then it's a female with a husband and an additional partner. Too bad there's no ticky box for "Male who identifies more with female concepts/ways, and is almost practically a woman, though not exactly transgendered" LOL! St00pid gender binary. Oh well, whether we choose to have a mixed-race person of color at the front, or a woman, we're still going to have a minority who is queer/poly.

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moominmuppet March 16 2010, 10:27:24 UTC
*grin* As tgeller mentions below, I'm also looking forward to gender ever getting properly represented in the data. And as I was saying to him, it definitely matters to me most because I know sociologists use this data, so I want my household, in all its oddities, represented accurately.

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tgeller March 16 2010, 02:24:50 UTC
Time to call the Census Bureau and try and sort out how to on earth we should handle our household.

Honestly? I don't think it matters. The census is primarily for redistricting purposes: Whether you have one or three households will hardly make a difference, especially as someone else is likely to err in the opposite direction.

I debated over whether to respond to the binary "sex" question, then just shrugged and did it. We had ten years to protest; we'll get it right on the 2020 census.

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moominmuppet March 16 2010, 10:25:56 UTC
It mostly matters to me because sociologists use the data, and I've got that whole accuracy obsession thing goin' on.

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