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Title: Graduation
Post by: Nik on May 15, 2007, 11:23:09 AM
Post by: Nik on May 15, 2007, 11:23:09 AM
I graduated from college last week. :icon_woowoo: yay me
Anyway, I've been working to give a kind of ambiguous appearance. I find I'm getting fewer maams.
At graduation, I was dressed up in a guy-like fashion, complete with necktie( I'd never worn one before, I think I like it ^-^).
When I got up on the stage and handed over my name card, I got such a look from the guy reading out the names. He looked at the card(with a clearly female name) then back at me, then back at the card then back at me before reading my name so I could walk across the stage.
I think this is the closest I've ever com to passing as male (thanks to those graduation gown that hide everything).
It made me happy. ;D
Anyway, I've been working to give a kind of ambiguous appearance. I find I'm getting fewer maams.
At graduation, I was dressed up in a guy-like fashion, complete with necktie( I'd never worn one before, I think I like it ^-^).
When I got up on the stage and handed over my name card, I got such a look from the guy reading out the names. He looked at the card(with a clearly female name) then back at me, then back at the card then back at me before reading my name so I could walk across the stage.
I think this is the closest I've ever com to passing as male (thanks to those graduation gown that hide everything).
It made me happy. ;D
Title: Re: Graduation
Post by: Intertween on May 15, 2007, 12:39:25 PM
Post by: Intertween on May 15, 2007, 12:39:25 PM
Hurray!
Congratulations, Nik! Not only for graduating, but doing it "as yourself"! :eusa_clap:
-- Sue
Congratulations, Nik! Not only for graduating, but doing it "as yourself"! :eusa_clap:
-- Sue
Title: Re: Graduation
Post by: Doc on May 15, 2007, 04:25:50 PM
Post by: Doc on May 15, 2007, 04:25:50 PM
Yay!
Neckties are great. Dressing as yourself is great.
Not getting called "ma'am" is great, too. Though you will perhaps soon find yourself annoyed by "Ma'am"s delivered with an irritating self-satisfied note ("I am so clever, I figured you out, ma'am.") Might wanna be prepared for that. Most people find me ambiguous, look hard, and then clock me as female, but occassionally there's somebody who gets a strong male impression. I once had a casual friendship with a girl who responded that way. Eventually somebody outed me to her and she thought it was oh-so-cool but started calling me "girlfriend!" in a gleeful pleased-with-herself fashion. I asked her to cut it out, she didn't. Feeling like she knew something everybody else was missing (though in fact, she didn't) was more fun for her than being friends with me, I guess. Now she gets neither.
Neckties are great. Dressing as yourself is great.
Not getting called "ma'am" is great, too. Though you will perhaps soon find yourself annoyed by "Ma'am"s delivered with an irritating self-satisfied note ("I am so clever, I figured you out, ma'am.") Might wanna be prepared for that. Most people find me ambiguous, look hard, and then clock me as female, but occassionally there's somebody who gets a strong male impression. I once had a casual friendship with a girl who responded that way. Eventually somebody outed me to her and she thought it was oh-so-cool but started calling me "girlfriend!" in a gleeful pleased-with-herself fashion. I asked her to cut it out, she didn't. Feeling like she knew something everybody else was missing (though in fact, she didn't) was more fun for her than being friends with me, I guess. Now she gets neither.
Title: Re: Graduation
Post by: Kendall on May 18, 2007, 06:12:53 PM
Post by: Kendall on May 18, 2007, 06:12:53 PM
Gratz! Good Job.
Nice that the reader had to do a double take even.
Kendall
Nice that the reader had to do a double take even.
Kendall