Subject: Re: gender: Re: your mail
From: Nathan McGowan (nathan@newm2.monsterbit.com)
Date: Wed Sep 15 1999 - 19:55:27 CDT
I'm not saying I can't. Believe me, I pretty much feel everything is
relative. That's why I'm begging the question.
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, supaflu design studio wrote:
> 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 ..
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> >On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, supaflu design studio wrote:
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> >> 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.
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> >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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