my take on pronouns

[lukeboi]

I really shouldn't be wasting my speedy brain on journal entries right now, but as I was falling asleep I remembered something I wanted to post about. For some reason, when I'm unable to actually post my thoughts on here, they piece together more articulately and forcefully than when I finally sit down to do it

Comments

[houseboy]

i liked your post.

that is all.

beck

[lukeboi]

Thanks dude.

Your girl's a cutie too, apparently!

[icarus_after]

i don't have time to wholly respond to this except to say, yes, exactly.

esp. the bit about "I can't believe they're suspending all disbelief and seeing me as male enough to use these pronouns in a habitual way that looks almost effortless!"

exactly.

[lukeboi]

Oh I know you get it!

[lukeboi]

I imagine a lot of this will change, though, as you masculinize further. At least I suspect that would happen to me if I went on T. I've even thought of not changing pronouns and starting T and waiting and watching for at what point and with what signifiers people begin to use male pronouns exclusively. For some American guys on standard dose, that can be as long as 3 or 4 months.

Must be a lot more interesting when all adjectives have a binary gender too! Yikes.

[validextension]

hey baker.

1st: i like the way you think.

i always felt as though people were giving me sympathy 'he's--humoring me just enough but then rolling their eyes when i turned away or something. i never felt comfortable with male pronouns before i actually physically transitioned...which is not to say that i see the same thing in other non-transitioning or pre-transitioning folks--i don't. but when people would use male pronouns for me before, it made me feel so weird. i never requested that anyone make the switch to male pronouns until after i was on testosterone...not that i'm saying others need to be on T to make the switch, but for me, it just felt so contrived, so weird, and like a huge joke. i didn't look male--i am short, had large breasts, very feminine facial features, and i lived in NORTHAMPTON and went to SMITH COLLEGE. let's be real here folks...

anyway, i know what you're getting at.

J.

[lukeboi]

Totally. And you know there's like 500 other "he's" running around this area too.

The best part about living here is that when you pass in Northampton, you know you're the shit.