On gardening and gender

[slayertatiana]

Nine trees, twelve silverbeet plants and two lettuce seedlings planted in the last two weeks. At this rate it'll be a while before I can feed myself to any extent, especially since I can't eat any of the trees. But it feels so good to be doing something in the garden at last!

I've gone from thick yellow clay to floodplain sand, and it's...

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[antikythera]

When I was taking karate lessons, with short hair and no makeup and wearing a baggy gi, several people in my class initially thought I was a boy. ^^; I think I was seventeen, so I did have a figure somewhere under all that heavyweight cotton.

Little kids take a while to figure it out. I remember being pretty proud of myself when I was maybe four years old and thought "Aha! Girls wear earrings!" But then when I realised that some guys wore earrings too, I had to rethink things. When you're a small child with no secondary sexual characteristics, you don't clue in to the existence of indicators like breasts.

[dr_sponge]

I'm going to be preparing some seedlings soon myself. Might direct plant something other than radish too... I'm trying do decide where to plant my "massive" corn field.

Androgynous is cool (and so are baggy cargo pants). I don't know if walking like a boy is cool as is not always the male way to walk elegantly (I know I walk "funny" as has been pointed out to me...)

[slayertatiana]

I don't think I stick my head forwards and hold my arms out like an ape... I really hope I don't.