Thursday, April 8, 2010

A Slow Start

Here I wish to address a lot of issues and my personal path to accomplish my twin goals of changing the world and treating everybody equally.

My most recent exploits have included switching from referring to people as "man," "boy," "woman," or "girl" to referring to them as people who identify as "male" or "female". This has lead to some interesting situations. There are a couple of people who now have the misconception that I know a statistically unlikely number of folks who are transgender. This is not true. I know only a few. However, this highlighted an interesting preconception that I've been encountering. Do not "men" identify as male? Sex and gender are different, but the two are conflated as if everyone who is "identified as female" as opposed to "being a woman" has a penis. I don't get it. I hope to see you all in the future.