Jaymes
The cake is a lie
Alright, everyone! Hop up! Time to do your gender exercises! One, two, three! One, two, three!...
Well, not really, but the phrase does make me want to say that.
This is an exercise I found over at T-Vox and thought some of you guys might be interested in it.
The instructions say to take a pencil and paper and write stuff out, but I've made a convenient picture file for everyone to use.
There are four lines; each is rather self explanatory. The top is your sex (XX, XY, etc), the next is your gender identity (whether you consider yourself a man or a woman or something else), the third is your gender expression (whether you act feminine, masculine, both or neither), and the last is your sexual orientation. You simply put a dot in the general area where you fall on each line.
Society tells me that I should be something like this:
But I'm actually more like this:
Keep in mind you can put your dots anywhere on the line. The point to keep in mind is that, although these things are related, they're pretty independent of each other. To use myself as an example, even when I considered myself lesbian I still liked women. That hasn't changed. My gender identity and expression, however, have.
Anyone else wanna give it a go?
Well, not really, but the phrase does make me want to say that.
This is an exercise I found over at T-Vox and thought some of you guys might be interested in it.
The instructions say to take a pencil and paper and write stuff out, but I've made a convenient picture file for everyone to use.
There are four lines; each is rather self explanatory. The top is your sex (XX, XY, etc), the next is your gender identity (whether you consider yourself a man or a woman or something else), the third is your gender expression (whether you act feminine, masculine, both or neither), and the last is your sexual orientation. You simply put a dot in the general area where you fall on each line.
Society tells me that I should be something like this:
But I'm actually more like this:
Keep in mind you can put your dots anywhere on the line. The point to keep in mind is that, although these things are related, they're pretty independent of each other. To use myself as an example, even when I considered myself lesbian I still liked women. That hasn't changed. My gender identity and expression, however, have.
Anyone else wanna give it a go?
