Because I get to exercise White Male Privilege, I started the essay with the assumption that the author was male. But there are a number of word/phrasing choices that are pretty exclusive to females, so I'm going with the author as female.
"YOWZA" Unless the author is on the West Coast, I can't say I've ever heard a male use this term in reference to other males, but I have heard females use this in reference to males.
"getting my motor running" Males use event-based metaphors for sexual arousal, like the act of orgasm: "Shwing!", "Pow", "Unf, unf, unf". This is a continuous-action metaphor, like the female orgasm.
12 uses of ellipses (…). This essay is designed more as conversation than declarative or explanatory Only women have conversations!
If "my genitals" was the original words used, that strongly points to female, who often get their breasts lumped in under the label "genitals", because they're like right next to each other. A male would probably just say "my dick". It's possible that the essay was edited to remove such an obvious tell, though.
"get married to him" I sincerely doubt a man having sex with men would mention this without touching on the political/social reality in the US today as to the feasibility of getting married.
The big giveaway is the first paragraph. There's no place in America that's far enough away from stupid that a male could grow up gay quite that innocently (which makes me sad, and work towards a US where that would be possible). Unless any reference about growing up gay was stripped out, this was written by a straight female.
Why not someone who is intersex? Again, back to the fact that there's no mention of having to deal with being intersex. Hard to talk about one's sex drive and sexual activity (especially the difficult parts!) without hitting the elephant in the room.
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on 2011-12-09 04:32 am (UTC)Because I get to exercise White Male Privilege, I started the essay with the assumption that the author was male. But there are a number of word/phrasing choices that are pretty exclusive to females, so I'm going with the author as female.
The big giveaway is the first paragraph. There's no place in America that's far enough away from stupid that a male could grow up gay quite that innocently (which makes me sad, and work towards a US where that would be possible). Unless any reference about growing up gay was stripped out, this was written by a straight female.
Why not someone who is intersex? Again, back to the fact that there's no mention of having to deal with being intersex. Hard to talk about one's sex drive and sexual activity (especially the difficult parts!) without hitting the elephant in the room.