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Friday Five: Gender
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1. What gender do you consider yourself? Er...uh...sorta-kinda-female?
2. Is this the gender you were assigned at birth? Without the modifiers, yes.
3. Do you like being your current gender? Why or why not?
I guess I'm pretty indifferent to it. I can't think of anything I really really like about it, but there isn't much I hugely dislike about it either--or maybe it's just that the things I do like and dislike are mostly not simple enough to be solely gender-related.
4. If you could change one thing about how society perceives/constructs your gender, what would it be? (don't go nuts here, I know the response to this could make for several doctoral theses)
If I could change one thing, I'd make gender distinctions completely irrelevant. Anything less sweeping than that, and I'd never be able to pick just one thing.
5. Everyone gets their ideas of what it means to be "a man" or "a woman" from somewhere (parents, movies, magazines, books). What was the single biggest influence on your gender identity?
Can't think of one. I mean, it's tough to point out just where I got my idea of "what it means to be a woman" when I can't recall ever having cared much about that question. I did get some rather warped ideas of what it meant to be an attractive woman, though, from growing up seventy miles from Hollywood, though I'm not sure how much of that was in fact universal teenage crap. Hell, UCB doesn't seem much better; walking around campus, I'm the only female undergrad I ever see who isn't wearing stereotypically feminine clothing, if not outright skank-wear. It depresses the fuck out of me sometimes.
altfriday5:1. What gender do you consider yourself? Er...uh...sorta-kinda-female?
2. Is this the gender you were assigned at birth? Without the modifiers, yes.
3. Do you like being your current gender? Why or why not?
I guess I'm pretty indifferent to it. I can't think of anything I really really like about it, but there isn't much I hugely dislike about it either--or maybe it's just that the things I do like and dislike are mostly not simple enough to be solely gender-related.
4. If you could change one thing about how society perceives/constructs your gender, what would it be? (don't go nuts here, I know the response to this could make for several doctoral theses)
If I could change one thing, I'd make gender distinctions completely irrelevant. Anything less sweeping than that, and I'd never be able to pick just one thing.
5. Everyone gets their ideas of what it means to be "a man" or "a woman" from somewhere (parents, movies, magazines, books). What was the single biggest influence on your gender identity?
Can't think of one. I mean, it's tough to point out just where I got my idea of "what it means to be a woman" when I can't recall ever having cared much about that question. I did get some rather warped ideas of what it meant to be an attractive woman, though, from growing up seventy miles from Hollywood, though I'm not sure how much of that was in fact universal teenage crap. Hell, UCB doesn't seem much better; walking around campus, I'm the only female undergrad I ever see who isn't wearing stereotypically feminine clothing, if not outright skank-wear. It depresses the fuck out of me sometimes.
