Davis- You’ve given me a lot to think about there. Diving people by gender has been a useful if unfair way for me to look at the world, and I appreciate how frustrating this must be for people who just don’t want that to be a marker at all. I think I like being a ‘woman,’ so it’s easy for me to write about how women should be taken more seriously even though they are different—but… it’s apparently not that simple. As I said, my first boyfriend called himself female. I never really understood why, since he liked to date women and didn’t do anything to physically change himself. In a more ideal world, maybe he wouldn’t have needed to label himself so at all… I didn’t even realize you were a man posting...
Davis- You’ve given me a lot to think about there. Diving people by gender has been a useful if unfair way for me to look at the world, and I appreciate how frustrating this must be for people who just don’t want that to be a marker at all. I think I like being a ‘woman,’ so it’s easy for me to write about how women should be taken more seriously even though they are different—but… it’s apparently not that simple. As I said, my first boyfriend called himself female. I never really understood why, since he liked to date women and didn’t do anything to physically change himself. In a more ideal world, maybe he wouldn’t have needed to label himself so at all… I didn’t even realize you were a man posting...