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Tag: gender

  • Someone You Know Is Struggling With Gender

    They may not know it yet. Or they may know, and not know whether they can trust you. 1. Someone you know Consider your social circle; the people you know, current and past. Colleagues you may have worked with for years. Siblings / aunts / uncles / nephews / nieces / cousins if you have…

  • Don’t Stop Me Now

    Seven weeks of full-time girl-mode and it’s going great. How I feel is simple… I’m burnin’ through the sky, yeahTwo hundred degrees, that’s why they call me [Sister] FahrenheitI’m travellin’ at the speed of lightI wanna make a supersonic woman of you After Queen, “Don’t Stop Me Now” It has been a very busy few…

  • Review: Will & Harper

    TL;DR: Absolutely fascinating. Joy & pain. Humour & reflection. I found this moving, joyful, and very uncomfortable in places. Much the same range of feelings that I frequently experience in girl-mode, especially when venturing outside of places that I know for sure will be welcoming. Will Ferrell takes a road trip with an old friend…

  • Identity, & Face Matching

    Google photos is pretty good at picking out faces which turn up in multiple photos. I’ve been impressed at times when it has correctly picked up a face in the background which I hadn’t noticed. You can remove an erroneously identified face from a grouping, and merge groups where the same person has been identified…

  • Bathroom Bingo / Restroom Roulette / Lavatory Lottery / Toilet Trepidation

    The question everyone either asks me, or wants to ask, is this: Which toilet do you use when out in girl-mode? It’s a valid simple-sounding question. And the short answer is: “It depends”

  • A Question for Men

    Have you ever complained about the time any woman has taken to get ready to go out? Have you ever felt frustrated by this time, or wondered how it could possibly take so long? If you’ve never tried it, then you simply have no idea. The expectations (by society, by partners, by everyone) to look…