gender: Re: your mail


Subject: gender: Re: your mail
From: Nathan McGowan (nathan@newm2.monsterbit.com)
Date: Wed Sep 15 1999 - 19:47:55 CDT


On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, supaflu design studio wrote:

> i call del he because he asked to be called he, and i think he has
> personally a big voice in determining how he should be called. blank sounds
> negative, non-defined, which isn't the case.

I guess now I ask by what criteria we call anyone anything at all? I
wasn't calling anyone "blank", I was asking you a question about someone
and trying to avoid pigeonholing said individual with a "he" or "she" tag.
I don't want to marginalize Del's feeling that [ ] is now a "he", but are
we really able to just project a gender for ourself without some sort of
tangible element? Del indicated that [ ] had not undergone an operation
or anything so dramatic as to not be somewhere in *between* the "he" or
"she". Perhaps tomorrow I might like to be "she". Am I entitled without
some sort of "proof"? Or maybe I want to be called "Dr." tomorrow? Do I
not need to first earn my degree? Hell, as an agnostic I would really
enjoy it if Christians called me "Reverend" for a day. Is it that easy to
assign titles to ourselves?



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