Some gender links

[soc_puppet]

So I was browsing through Ana Mardoll's blog, like you do, when I re-discovered xer fantastic Storify of Some Gender Identities. If you're looking to explore gender a little more deeply, or just learn about more gender identities in general, it's a good resource. It also links to two other pretty incredible resources: A list of pronouns, and a pronoun dressing room, where you can input a person's name and pronouns (yours or someone else's) and see how they look in text examples; there's samples from Sherlock Holmes, Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, and something called The Piebald Hippogriff, so you can experience the pronouns "in action", as it were.

Comments

[capri0mni]

That is a great piece!

And so, BTW, is the Vi Hart video: "On Gender," that someone posted in the comments.

...I remember watching that video back when she (?) first posted it, and it gave me the great phrase: "I do not understand your meat noises!"

And (on watching it again, just now), I realize now that her confusion over the very existence of gender is very much like the confusion I long felt over the very existence of any sort of sexual attraction. ...I've not come across this phrase before, but maybe I'm "Attraction Queer," rather than "Gender Queer?"

[soc_puppet]

Shoot yeah, that is a great video. It's got closed captions available, too, which is important.

That's definitely an option, I'm pretty sure. I think the prefix "quoi-" is used to indicate a general "????" feeling about gender and attraction? (I welcome corrections on this.)

[capri0mni]

As I understand it (and I may be understanding erroneously) the quoi prefix means confusion about what you, yourself, are feeling (it's French for "What?!" -- when I was in Grad school, one of my apartment mates would say "Quoi?" when she hadn't quite heard what you said.... And no, she wasn't French).

But for me, it's: "I know precisely what I'm feeling, and it's not on your list -- I've checked twice, thrice, and more times."

What I identified with in Vi Hart's video is being so certain that everyone, on the entire planet (all 5.8 Billion of them) were just acting out a script when talking about sexual attraction and romance -- especially romance.

And it wasn't until I came upon the word "Asexual," describing a character in a story, that I realized it also described me. And if we had a word to describe lack of sexual attraction, then maybe having sexual attraction was also real?

Huh. Will wonders never cease...

[pebblerocker]

Thank you! That's a post I'd found useful before, then I couldn't re-find the link to it later. Vi Hart's video was new to me and very good.