Er, my childhood got revised, that's odd
I tend to think of the malleable nature of history and pre-history as just something that happens to other people's pasts, but now someone has written a book about my best friend in secondary school, putting me into a parallel universe which Looks Different.
( enter the Twilight Zone )
( enter the Twilight Zone )
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Ssssoooooooooo true and fascinating too!
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Don't think of it as not seeing people for their true gender, but rather you see the person as an individual. You seem to see people for their qualities, their character rather their physical equipment. That's a good thing.
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It may also be that I gravitate to people who chose their attributes retail, one at a time, rather than getting one of the pre-configured packages such as male/female/Christian/Socialist/whatever. Wife1 was particularly eclectic (mixed up?) in that way, and it's curious now to recall when she first met Dru, who was Drew then. She (D, male at the time) was impressed with how butch she (wife, female at the time) was because she let her (him, I give up on pronouns) take her (their) nail varnish off with a knife.
It might be fun to get them together again, if there's ever a moment when their revolving sexualities also line up.
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Gosh, just found this and caught up on at least some of your news...
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Yes, a little obscure...
We did work hard at making the book as truthful and honest as poss. I'd be interested to hear J's take on the things he thinks I kept from Richard... I like the notion of retail attributes, though I suspect that a lot of that stuff is hard-wired.
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I admit I like the idea of retail attributes as well, though to me it tends to imply the idea of actually thinking about stuff rather than going for the socially acceptable default. Obviously some stuff is hard-wired and really difficult to do anything about, but other things are much more amenable to thought and conscious choice. But then, I've spent the last 11 years or so being and living with a heretic, you kind of get used to making choices where many people (though probably not people who read this LJ) don't realise that there are choices.
And I'm waffling 'cos I'm pre-caffeine...
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I've been gently dipping, but not yet too deep, J. Are you teaching or studying the course? It sounds interesting. I was countering some stuff from Julie Bindel, an essentialist feminist, the other week; she thinks that gender is an entirely social construct, and TS women are actually gay men, or something, perpetuating the gender binary. And then last week we had the Pope saying that we are as much of a threat as the destruction of the rain forests because we subvert the aforementioned gender binary. Blah blah. It's nice to be appreciated.
I wondered what had happened to you; there was much dropping off of people back then, and I just assumed the worst and went off in a huff. You know how it is. Thanks for calling me pretty, though.
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(I would write more, but Roz is more eloquent than I am, and I need to go watch Celebrity Big Brother about now :-) )
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