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[pebblerocker]

I can't tell which occasions are an encounter with someone who uses "bro" or "mate" as gender-neutral terms and which are people misreading me until after the double-take, if there is one. I think the man at the tyre shop is one who calls women "mate"; I mean, I've just had a haircut and was wearing my baggy checked shirt, but I was carrying a handbag.

When I was 20 it was easy to see how people could mistake me for a short, downy-chinned 14-year-old boy. I wonder what will happen as my skin shows more and more signs of belonging to an over-30 in outdoor occupations. Will having wrinkles make me obviously not a boy? Or will I turn into some sort of ageless, genderless leprechaun creature?

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I signed up for snapshot_bingo! I always feel arty near the beginning of the year, maybe from the general resolutionary atmosphere of New Year, maybe because I'm halfway between NaArMaMos. I'm not sure what the general artistic standard of the community will be like, and if it'll be encouraging or intimidating, but it'll be fun to try even if I don't show the results to anyone. Here's my bingo card:

N	Grand	Bird	Text	I
Fence	Apricot	Hallway	Heard	Wore
Lemon	Imperfect	Free Space	Navy	Children
Smile	Button	V	Favorite	Table
Joy	Fuchsia	Plate	Outside	Aqua

Comments

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

We don´t have these problems with vocabulary in Czech.
However I did have problems with this identification! I used to wear very short hair and I am also quite a sportish kind...no matter my wrinkles and quite obvious attributes of womanhood, I had been mistaken for a man several times on a bus. That upset me to changing my hairstyle a little - now my hair is a little longer and as always, it became wavy. It did the trick, I think:-)

[pebblerocker]

I have always admired your short hair -- very sporty and chic!