Subject: gender: Re: your mail
From: supaflu design studio (supaflu@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Sep 15 1999 - 20:57:10 CDT
but nathan, who would be entitled to decided whether you are a he or a she
more than yourself? the medical establishment? the laws? do you need to
have a penis to be a he? why couldn't you feel like being a she tomorrow
and switch it to that without 'some sore of tangible element' there ..
>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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