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pebblerocker) wrote2013-01-16 10:07 pm
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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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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:
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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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 |
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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:-)
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