Sometimes I feel very privileged to be living now and not at any other time in the past few hundred years. Other times I'm astonished at the glacial rate of social change and all the idiotic shuffling baby-step changes that we apparently have to go through one at a time before we deal with long-standing cultural hangups.
How about this: your identity is in your hands; you are who and what you say you are, and who you have sex with and how is none of anybody else's business, unless they're somehow directly involved or consent is breached.
Lord knows, I don't expect to be treated as an example or guide for any class of people. I do what I do, I eat what I eat, I have sex with who I have sex with, I form emotional attachments with individuals. and I'm making all this shit up as I go along, because I don't trust anyone else to provide me with an instruction book. Maybe you can feel the privilege oozing off this statement. Sorry about that, I happen to be lucky. But from this privileged position I can also extend the same courtesy to everyone: I'll be who I am, you be who you are, maybe we'll have stuff to share.
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Date: 2012-02-01 10:54 am (UTC)Sometimes I feel very privileged to be living now and not at any other time in the past few hundred years. Other times I'm astonished at the glacial rate of social change and all the idiotic shuffling baby-step changes that we apparently have to go through one at a time before we deal with long-standing cultural hangups.
How about this: your identity is in your hands; you are who and what you say you are, and who you have sex with and how is none of anybody else's business, unless they're somehow directly involved or consent is breached.
Lord knows, I don't expect to be treated as an example or guide for any class of people. I do what I do, I eat what I eat, I have sex with who I have sex with, I form emotional attachments with individuals. and I'm making all this shit up as I go along, because I don't trust anyone else to provide me with an instruction book. Maybe you can feel the privilege oozing off this statement. Sorry about that, I happen to be lucky. But from this privileged position I can also extend the same courtesy to everyone: I'll be who I am, you be who you are, maybe we'll have stuff to share.