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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2003-06-15

"Why should it be possible to buy at least six different kinds of bagel in New York city and yet be limited to a mere two choices of gender?" -- Stephanie Theobald, writing for The Guardian

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posted by [identity profile] butterfluff.livejournal.com at 03:40am on 2003-06-15
Poor analogy. Bagels are foodstuffs, and inherently disposable. Compare architecture styles instead -- something that you have to live with the decision once you make it, or, if it's your old family homestead, you were handed it.

You can choose your house style? Some of us can't handle stairs, thank you. It's not just taste.
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posted by [identity profile] badmagic.livejournal.com at 12:12pm on 2003-06-15
Perhaps it's because you can't buy gender in New York City.

Interesting image, tho. "Gimme a bagga onion, an' a polymorphous sexual idnetity, to go."
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posted by [identity profile] butterfluff.livejournal.com at 12:26pm on 2003-06-15
I would think that if there was anywhere in the world you could, it would be there or Los Angeles. But like most things, it costs.
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posted by [identity profile] filkerdave.livejournal.com at 02:43pm on 2003-06-15
It's easier to bake a bagel.

And would you REALLY want to be boiled and baked to choose your gender?
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posted by [identity profile] katrinb.livejournal.com at 03:18pm on 2003-06-15
Told that to my sister, who used to live in NYC and wants to again, and she said it was nonsense. Of COURSE you can get more than two genders in New York. With cream cheese, if you like.
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