It worries me generally when people want to leave the female box, because then when they do anything that's one more thing a woman didn't do, in a world that's only too happy to provide examples that women can't do stuff.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh.
But externally, people are going to look at you and put you in categories and visible gender and skin colour are going to be right up there in how they do that because people are wired that way.
Christ. I do think there's racism and sexism and a shitload of prejudice pretty much in the very air we breathe because it's such a fucked-up society, but for Godsakes, it's not like how the swallows find their way to Capistrano, or whatever.
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metaphortunate) wrote2012-07-18 08:56 pm
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh.
But externally, people are going to look at you and put you in categories and visible gender and skin colour are going to be right up there in how they do that because people are wired that way.
Christ. I do think there's racism and sexism and a shitload of prejudice pretty much in the very air we breathe because it's such a fucked-up society, but for Godsakes, it's not like how the swallows find their way to Capistrano, or whatever.