Well ...you know ...
Yes,
Adam, you did ... sigh.
In the beginning it was the name.
Tiassa, apparently "sounds feminine". Yeah, I can see how that is.
I'll put it to rest and post a picture of myself if I
absolutely must, but I don't really want to. (Three weeks ago, some simple light-test pictures were taken of me; they're the first photographs in ... ten years ... in which I appear willingly, and also in which I don't look like an incidental washout at the edge of the frame or an ethnic-minority car thief--I dislike flash photography.)
But, to the current sidebar,
What does that even mean? The last time I heard someone accused of writing like a girl it was because he was using purple pen and those amazingly large, looping script letters that I remember envying in my female third-grade classmates who got better penmanship scores than I did. I'm looking at my own handwriting now ... the only time I touch the top line of the college rule is with reckless
t's,
I's, and so forth.
But since we
type here ... tell ya what ... my ego is piqued now, curious as hell. Sometime shortly I'll put up in the Free Thoughts forum and y'all can call me a woman; because I have no idea what it means that I write like a woman ....
To the other, it does provide for some rather needed moments of levity.
But, strangely, it's flattering. On the one hand, if I have an actual gender reassignment, I might be able to marry the woman I'm supposed to. To the other, and the more rational, it pleases me in no small way to know I'm defying some preexisting boundary. I would, however, love to know how that defiance manifests itself.
guh-rinning,
Tiassa
(PostScript--
This Public Service Announcement has been brought by the Amusing Preconceptions Group; working to identify the boundaries that constrict us all; working toward your freedom.)
or something ... truly, I am grinning, and I am, in certain ways, flattered.