firecat: red panda, winking (Default)
posted by [personal profile] firecat at 02:02am on 2016-06-23
I'm nonbinary and yes, I can really relate to this. I've started having weird reactions to purposelessly gendered phrases such as "hello, ladies & gentlemen." I can't hear them without translating them into "hello, people with vaginas and people with penises" and then thinking how weird it is that in many cultures it's required to formally address people with reference to such things. And to use pronouns that reference them.

[disclaimer: I know that lady does not always associate to vagina and gentleman to penis.]

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