Gender and Me

[erda_3]

The summer that I was seven we went through a period where we played house every afternoon with a couple of the neighborhood kids. We would meet on our back porch and divide up the roles. There was always a short struggle over who would be the Daddy, the Mommy, the little sisters or little brothers, all of which made me intensely uncomfortable for

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[adafrog]

Very good. Perfectly expressed.

[erda_3]

Thanks!

[sylvanwitch]

I can really relate to your memories here. In my neighborhood, we were all about pretending to be characters from television shows, and I far preferred CHiPs or Bonanza, where all of the characters we enacted were men, than I did, say, Charlie's Angels (during which I was usually Jackie because she was the smart one, not because she was played by Jacqueline Smith, who was and is gorgeous). And when we did play house, I really never wanted to be the mom because that meant taking care of the kids, which wasn't something, even then, that interested me

[erda_3]

{hugs} Good to know I'm not alone out here. I feel so old compared to most of the people I follow online.

[dahlia34563]

I've been living in the hills ever since then and sometimes when the loneliness gets to me I still c