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Good things Seven Seven

Jul 07, 2015 11:05

1. Hot date with Bretts last night, for values of hot that ended up talking about self-care and social perceptions of gender and bodies and what we like about them until two in the morning instead of actually doing anything with them, with gourmet dinner and a two hour break for playing ukulele together ( Read more... )

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sistawendy July 7 2015, 21:40:55 UTC

If we weren't both birdplanes, I might suspect we were lesbians.

*Snerk!*

For being so (internally generated) busy, my life is feeling increasingly rich. That's pretty great.

Yaaay!

randomdreams July 8 2015, 03:09:56 UTC

I'd like to hear about the why and the process of the Pepper Personal Assistant thing.

gement July 8 2015, 12:35:57 UTC

More "why" forthcoming soon, but short form is I realized that the tasks I can't make myself do alone have been interfering with my life more than I can afford and that needs to change immediately ( ... )

randomdreams July 8 2015, 16:24:24 UTC

This sounds like a thoroughly neat idea. I will be interested in hearing how it progresses.

wcg July 8 2015, 15:36:17 UTC

Urban dictionary isn't helping. What's a birdplane?

gement July 8 2015, 17:27:57 UTC

It's not helping because I'm more or less one of a kind. :D

Birdplane is my internal word for my gender identity, when I want to explain to personal friends in more detail than "genderqueer."

It's a reference to the parody song Birdplane, by Axis of Awesome, which takes a sharp left turn from an angsty 90s song about Superman: "I'm more than a bird, I'm more than a plane, I'M A BIRDPLANE ( ... )

wcg July 8 2015, 17:56:29 UTC

Thanks. That does make things much clearer. Also very happy for you, and your partner, that you've found each other. I wish you all joy of your mutual multitudes.

gipsieee July 9 2015, 02:31:38 UTC

Yay for words that seem to be working even if you had to build them up yourself.

I'm currently gendered as mama. Yeah.. there's totally a default assumption there.. but I don't tend to judge people for assuming stuff when I'm totally not correcting them on it.

And for a historical "oops, how did I wind up in this fight, oh.. I picked it.. crap.. how to back down??"
I nearly picked a nasty fight with my mother-in-law last Christmas about the correctness of the singular they. I maintain that I am right and she is on the sadly deluded, but currently winning side that says I am wrong. It went on for several volleys and I nearly had to leave the room because I couldn't come up with any good way to disengage. It was... awkward. She thankfully appears to have not really noticed just *how* invested I was in it because gender stuff with in-laws is just not what I want to be discussing at Christmas if I don't absolugely have to.