State Of My Gender

[pantryslut]

Lately, people are once again talking about different flavors of gender all around me. So I think it's time to ask the perennial question:

What do you think my gender is? How would you describe or label it?

I will give you my own answer tomorrow :) (Or, more likely, answers, plural.)

Comments

[genderfur.livejournal.com]

I'm hijacking your question (b/c I liked "mannish woman" just fine and I have no better information than your own report) to ask one similar in my own LJ. Hah!

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Maybe not better information, but...gender has an external shape and an internal one, and I can see the latter just fine...

(today, I am enjoying the ellipse.)

[mckennl.livejournal.com]

Gay male?

[gramina.livejournal.com]

You "read" pretty much female to me, but my understanding of female is very damn broad; also, though, I have pretty much given up on deciding what someone else's gender is unless they either tell me in words or flag it pretty strongly non-verbally. (Which is why I didn't answer until accused of shyness -- which is true, you see, thus requiring me to come answer ;) )

I would not describe or label it -- I'd refer folks to you and let you do that. ((In addition to being shy, I'm chickenshit very respectful of people's right to define their own selves.))

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Most of my friends are very respectful of people's right to define their own selves, which I think is mostly what's going on here :)

Except, see, gender is a conversation, not a statement.

[imnotandrei.livejournal.com]

Geek!

(SF geek, sports geek, porn geek...geek.)

[sacchig.livejournal.com]

I'm unduly hampered by recollections of the intro photo on a story web site you used to have. Um, at that time, spectacularly effective drag queen?

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I love those photos :) Yes, I can be a very effective drag queen.