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practicalandrogyny: Web comic: Poly In Pictures 83: Cold Confused Caller Caption: I like to confuse cold-callers. Caller: Is this the lady of the house? Stick figure: Um. No; who’s calling, please? Caller: May I speak to the lady or the man of the house, please? Stick figure: There are no men or women living here. WHO IS THIS? Caller: Oh… I— er. *Beeeeep* The alt text says “This really happened.”

practicalandrogyny:

Web comic: Poly In Pictures 83: Cold Confused Caller

Caption: I like to confuse cold-callers.

Caller: Is this the lady of the house?

Stick figure: Um. No; who’s calling, please?

Caller: May I speak to the lady or the man of the house, please?

Stick figure: There are no men or women living here. WHO IS THIS?

Caller: Oh… I— er. *Beeeeep*

The alt text says “This really happened.”

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genderfork: A friend asked cleverbot this, it put a smile on both our faces, though I don’t know why he hadn’t just googled it or asked me… [Image description: a screencap of a conversation with Cleverbot. The human asks: “What does transgender mean?” Cleverbot answers: “I am a bot.” Human: “Does that mean you don’t know the answer?” Cleverbot: “You didn’t ask a question.” Human: “Ok, what is the meaning of transgender?” Cleverbot: “The meaning of life is to be happy and live your life the way you want and be what you want to be. Not what others try to make you.”]

genderfork:

A friend asked cleverbot this, it put a smile on both our faces, though I don’t know why he hadn’t just googled it or asked me…

[Image description: a screencap of a conversation with Cleverbot. The human asks: “What does transgender mean?” Cleverbot answers: “I am a bot.” Human: “Does that mean you don’t know the answer?” Cleverbot: “You didn’t ask a question.” Human: “Ok, what is the meaning of transgender?” Cleverbot: “The meaning of life is to be happy and live your life the way you want and be what you want to be. Not what others try to make you.”]

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Not Always Right: Excess Of XY

Me:
“Hi, My name is Randi, I’ll be taking your order tonight.”
Old man:
“Randi? That’s a boy’s name.”
Me:
“No, it’s spelled with a ‘Y’. Mine is spelled with an ‘I’. I’m a girl.”
Old woman:
“Leave her alone, maybe she’s both! They have those nowadays.”

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Old Spice Guy + FEMINIST HULK + Judith Butler

Old Spice Guy:
"Hello, FEMINIST HULK. I observe that you are using lady-scented body wash."
Feminist Hulk:
"HULK FIND LAVENDER FRAGRANCE RELAXING AFTER DAY OF SMASH."
Old Spice Guy:
"Wouldn't you like to smell like me?"
Feminist Hulk:
"HULK WOULD RATHER SMASH GENDER BINARY OF PERFORMATIVE SHOWERING."
Old Spice Guy:
"Your tiny purple shorts hanging on the towel rack now hold tickets to the Sleater-Kinney reunion concert. And diamonds."
Feminist Hulk:
"HULK ENJOY CORIN TUCKER'S REJECTION OF TRADITIONAL GENDER ROLES AND CONSUMERISM. BUT DIAMONDS MAKE HULK WANT TO SMASH HEGEMONY OF POST-COLONIAL OPPRESSION. ALSO, STILL PREFER TO SMELL LIKE FIELD OF FLOWERS."
Old Spice Guy:
"You puzzle me, Feminist Hulk. Your wish to use lady-scented body wash, even whilst smelling the intoxicating scent of my Old Spice, is unparalleled in my experience. "
Judith Butler:
"Feminist Hulk makes a good critique, Old Spice Man. Your discourse is being circumscribed by a learned sex/gender distinction. Please pass me the loofah."
Old Spice Guy:
"Hello, Judith Butler. Allow me to scrub your back. So you and Feminist Hulk are saying that my devotion to Old Spice body wash might be part of a larger regulative discourse to maintain an essential ontological gender?"
Judith Butler:
"That's correct, Old Spice Man."
Feminist Hulk:
"HULK SMASH EPISTEMOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS, WHILE SMELLING LIKE SPRING GARDEN."
Old Spice Guy:
"I understand. Allow me to bake you a cake, Feminist Hulk and Judith Butler, while we discuss intersectionality and the beauty of giant green muscles."
Judith Butler:
"Congratulations on making a break with compulsory heterosexuality, Old Spice Man."
Femist Hulk:
"HULK IS VERY HAPPY TO SHARE TEARS OF JOY AND ORGANIC WHOLE WHEAT PASTRY FLOUR WITH OLD SPICE MAN AND JUDITH BUTLER."
Old Spice Guy:
"I'm on a unicorn."

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I thought then of my friend, the corset threatening to slip right past her hips to her ankles. I thought of her shopping around for electrologists while I’m working so hard to sprout just four hairs from skin that doesn’t even do peach fuzz. I thought of her shyer, deeper voice in contrast to my own ringing, melancholic, opera-trained, still so alien mezzo.

“It’s hard to relate,” I began somewhat absently, watching my formerly hourglass-shaped corset conform to her taut, upside-down-triangle torso.

“I want hair,” I continued. “You don’t want hair. I let it grow, you rip it all out. We want all opposite things.”

She looked at me like I had just tried to explain differential equations using a flipflop and a jar of peanut butter. “I think we want the same thing,” she told me bluntly.

It felt as though the poles had shifted. Her voice had warm finality in it. It said, “I have no problem relating to you.” It said, “You’re looking for freedom and I am, too.” It said, “Your tits aren’t my tits, and both of us have beautiful chests.
The Boobs That Didn’t Belong to Anybody « First Jamie, Then James on empathy between trans women and men.

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I broke one of the Man Rules at work this morning. I’ve already forgotten which (it’s kinda hard to keep track). I was met with the response:

“And you call yourself a man!”
“No I don’t. You do.”
“… Whu. You’re a man.”
“No I’m not.”
“… What are you then?”
“I’m just me.”
“Oh.
Bubblegum Blues

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