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Feeling gendered

AnonusAnonus
edited 2011-08-16 23:20:32 in Meatspace
I don't think I understand it anymore.

(I know the OP doesn't provide much to go on, but I thought it would be interesting)

Comments

  • HatterHatter
    Glaives are better.
    What's to misunderstand?
  • AnonusAnonus
    I don't know, really.

    Maybe I've just started to think it's kind of a weird concept. Maybe this is stupid of me.
  • HatterHatter
    Glaives are better.
    If if helps, I don't walk around all the time saying "I'm male" to myself. When I'm alone, I don't notice my masculinity, because there's nothing different from it for me to contrast with. It's only when I'm around girly women or strangely girly men that I become aware of being masculine.
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    It's weird. A lot of the time I don't feel especially gendered, but then every once in a while I get the feeling that I should be female. I look at my body and it feels "wrong". I hear someone call me "he" and I wince a little inside.

    Which is to say: I don't really understand it, either.
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
     I look at my body and it feels "wrong". I hear someone call me "he" and I wince a little inside.

    How I feel.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I think my gender (by which I mean my biological gender) is just something that happens to be that way and I don't really care for it either way.
  • The_EdgeThe_Edge
    Mr. The Edge goes to Washington
    I feel just a tad bit masculine.
  • SaigyoujiSaigyouji
    edited 2011-08-17 09:14:22
    But you never had any to begin with.
    I look at my body and it feels "wrong". I hear someone call me "he" and I wince a little inside.

    How I feel.
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    Saigyouji is TG?
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Yes. 
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    I did not know that.

    I would say welcome to the club but I have the feeling you would rather get out of the club.
  • The_EdgeThe_Edge
    Mr. The Edge goes to Washington
    I have a Swedish friend who is the same way.
  • inkblotinkblot
    000
    A lot of the time I don't feel especially gendered, but then every once
    in a while I get the feeling that I should be female. I look at my body
    and it feels "wrong". I hear someone call me "he" and I wince a little
    inside.


  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    ^ ...I don't get it. What in that post was head-explodingly shocking?
  • inkblotinkblot
    edited 2011-08-17 14:21:17
    000
    I assumed you were female (biologically, I mean) ever since I started posting on TV Tropes.
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    See, that's interesting to me. I always tend to assume I come off as a boy who is trying too hard to come off as a girl.

    Though IIRC, GMH previously thought I was cis-female, to, as did Aondeug (this was before we were hivemind buddies).
  • LouieWLouieW
    edited 2011-08-17 22:21:40
    Loser
    funnyguts,
    I wonder if removing the concept of gender would make for more or less transsexuals. Would more people be okay with changing their body instead of assuming that it has to look a certain way because of their assigned gender, or would less people care what their body's like because it doesn't matter to them either way?

    I suppose the more obvious answer would be that it would depend on people's preferences. I imagine that someone who tilts towards the agender part of spectrum and just dislikes gender roles of all types (i.e. both masculine and feminine traits) would not want to change his or her body if the concept of gender were removed.

    This is all just conjecture, but I think that some people would still care about their body enough to change it even without gender for aesthetic reasons or to fit how they feel about themselves, especially about something like physical strength. In any event, I think it is pretty tough to speculate about this kind of stuff because of how intrenched gender is as a concept. I mean, some people still have a bias against women wearing pants/trousers and I feel like taking away all of the baggage from gender would be incredibly difficult.

    Basically I think it is pretty tough to imagine a world completely removed from gender even if I admit that I would like to move at least a little bit in that direction.
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