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? asked in Social ScienceGender Studies · 6 months ago

Does anyone else feel like this about (their own) gender?

You could describe me as gender casual.  ...It's not that I don't consider myself to be female (my actual sex), I just don't think it's all that *important*.  Like it's one of a long list of descriptors, and there are a lot of them that are much more central to my identity.

I would be more different as a person if I suddenly wasn't smart, or nerdy, or a nonspecific theist, or on the autism spectrum, than if I suddenly wasn't female.  My being female is just, well, a fact, like me being short, or having blue eyes.

Does anyone else here (male or female) feel similar?

Update:

"gender casual" is something shamelessly stolen from the webcomic El Goonish Shive.  It is not, as far as I'm aware, a Thing.

Update 2:

Bill: imagine you woke up one morning, and found that you suddenly had girl parts instead of boy parts.  How would you react?

Also, I put a lot of thought into a lot of things.  I have detailed plans about what I'd do if a genie (or whatever) granted me a wish.  I know what projects I would want to work on if I suddenly became a multimillionare.  I'm a very thinky person.

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  • Anonymous
    6 months ago

    Sex and gender are the same (except for a small number of people who are trans).

    5 years ago, nobody spent so much time thinking about various genders. Is “Gender casual” a type of gender that they invented recently?

  • Bill
    Lv 7
    6 months ago

    I think it's weird to put a lot of thought into your gender. 

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