July 14, 2009...10:00 am
Self-identification means little socially
Jamie Royce
http://stuffqueerpeopleneedtoknow.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/self-identification-means-little-socially/I know this is a fairly long post and you should read the entire thing to get the full effect, but if you must skim I have put the important passages in bold for you.
I would like to preface this by saying that I am not writing about how the world we live in should be or indicating that a lack of self-identification is right; I am strictly discussing the status quo and how things actually are. I find that people get hung up on the word as soon as I mention self-identification and become automatically defensive no matter what I am actually saying, so please keep that in mind as you are reading this. I am simply musing about the social construct of gender, how I think society plays into identity and how I observe society operating within those boundaries.
Take the following scenarios as food for thought and contemplate what you would genuinely do and think in the situation, as well as what you would label these people as. Do not focus on the should, but rather the would. The questions I pose are what someone may be potentially thinking.
