From the NYT: "All Twisted Up by Gender Bending"

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Found this hard to access.

Hypatia Littlewings's picture

It either requires an on going paid "subscription"(already having a subscription to the print version counts), or you can get limited access via social media login, requiring signing up for their spam via email & sharing your friends list. Then you need to make sure site can get through your security measures.

Interesting article with an interesting point of view, once I manged to access it that is.

I hope they don't spam my friends list. :(

>i<

Huh?

I accessed it without any of this. Just clicked the link, clicked OUT of the instant full screen ad, and started reading.

I agree it's an interesting article. Seems the author is a bit genderfluid and was having difficulty understanding themselves, possibly still is.

Abigail Drew.

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Valcyte's picture

Actually it's pretty easy to read the New York Times without paying. They give you 10 free articles per month. When you hit your limit you can either change browsers from Safari to Firefox for example, or you can delete all of your cookies. For some reason trying to delete only of the New York Times cookies retains something, I presume a cookie counter, that blocks you at 10 articles. Since the cookies in my browser history are not terribly important to me on my iPad I tend to read.on the iPad. If I go over my limit of 10 articles I just delete my browsing history. Voila.

To the point of the article however, I think it just demonstrates the blend that we all are made of and the expectations that society uses to enforce the average blend. I don't think it matters which statistical average you apply, mean, median or most. The farther you stray from your societies mean, the more disquiet you create for those around you and for yourself.
My personal solution is to try to be what society at large expects. But that requires leaving no doubt that I am a woman. What is still divergent in this society is openly trying to live two existences. Not to mention expensive in every sense of the word.
Val

“I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.”
Sartre