X Years Ago Today

[sorcyress]

One year ago today, it was 2008, and I was (shocking nobody who's ever had an extended conversation with me ever) interested in gender and sexuality.

I also believe I originally meant to post up some thoughts on that poll, ages and ages ago, and then got distracted. At the very least, go fill it out for me if you haven't, okay? Or, if you want to do the really quick and dirty version in the comments of this post...

You list as [gender(s)]:
Explain:

You are attracted to people of [gender(s)]:
Explain:

You consider yourself [poly/mono/etc]:
Explain:

You are currently in relatinships best described as [none/mono/poly/complicated/etc]:
Explain:

And, bonus question, since I forgot it in the original poll:
Your preferred pronoun is:

Seriously. This kind of thing fascinates the hell out of me. Babble¹ about gender and sexuality and stuff like that in the comments, please!

~Sor
MOOP!

1: No, really, Har, Dodger, etc. I like hearing people's thoughts, especially about this. I am encouraging long comments, damnit. Don't let yourself be limited by the thought that I'm going to be overwhelmed --if you're that worried, just toss a one line summery at the bottom for ease of skimming. I promise to read the whole thing though.

Comments

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

I list gender as either "female" when required to pick from the commonly acceptable ones. I am very, very comfortable in my female-sexed body, and identify with it sufficiently that the first fits. However, the OS that I run, the socialization bits, tend to function such that a blind test pegs me a guy 9 times out of 10.

When allowed to define my own gender, I list as "geek", because I think the geekish brain-OS has more in common with other geeks of either sex than with un-geeks of the same sex.

I am attracted largely to male-sexed people, and to a smaller degree to female-sexed ones. I generally say that I'm geek-sexual, in that what I'm attracted to is largely geekiness. The gender identification of people I'm attracted to does not seem to be a determining variable.

I consider myself to be poly. I cannot wrap my brain around the notion of promising to not fall for other people just because I have fallen for one.

I am currently in one long-term serious relationship with a person who is monogamous. The relationship is poly, despite the fact that it's been a while since I've been involved with anyone else to any more than casual degree.

My preferred pronoun-set is female-standard. I am willing to use "zie/zir" if needed for obfuscation purposes.