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Maple's Thoughts

A 27 Sided Dice

2/13/2016

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See, when I was 10, my mother told me that boys do boy things and girls do girl things. Boy things such as bulldozing, carpentry and girl things like cooking and cleaning. I rejected this quite early on.

Why couldn't a boy do girl things? Does it have to be it that way?

I spent the next bunch of years trying to figure out an answer. Around this time, someone suggested that there were not 2 genders but 27 (or 26 if you prefer).

I could see the value in this mindest, of 27 individual gender identities, the idea seemed very appealing, but somehow I still felt confused.

It was still labeling, a less insidious labeling then 2 genders society wants to oppose, but still labeling.

So I said screw it. No more genders. My mindset changed to "there is no boy, no girl" because gender IMO doesn't exist.

A sigh of relief. I now understood gender, I now understood myself.




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Naomi
3/6/2016 10:09:52 pm

Gender is a funny critter. It simultaneously exists and does not exist.

So damn subjective and, for the most part, is only used to put people into boxes and restrict their behaviours (as you described).

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Maple
3/7/2016 02:16:30 pm

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