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Sep. 19th, 2005 02:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sophiaserpentiaI am constantly fascinated by the way perceptions of my gender shift depending on my circumstances and context. I am also interested to note that, mystif-style, the way i move and speak shifts subtly to match those perceptions, probably a survival tactic.
During my recent trip to Niagara Falls with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lady_babalon and her kid, i was frequently taken as male. I guess that to people who saw the three of us, we looked like a normal, middle-class, heterosexual family. People were nicer than usual. lady_babalon noted that it felt vaguely dishonest to benefit from that perception, even though we did nothing to encourage it (other than actually being a family).
This weekend, during my trip to Vermont withcowgrrl i was frequently taken as female. As in Niagara Falls i didn't do anything special to promote one gender perception or another, wearing tee-shirt, jeans, and sneaker, and no makeup. Without a kid and with some age difference between us, and perhaps being in what we suspect was a gay vacation enclave (if so, a very closeted one, but not without hints), people just saw us as two women on vacation together.
During my recent trip to Niagara Falls with
lady_babalon and her kid, i was frequently taken as male. I guess that to people who saw the three of us, we looked like a normal, middle-class, heterosexual family. People were nicer than usual. lady_babalon noted that it felt vaguely dishonest to benefit from that perception, even though we did nothing to encourage it (other than actually being a family).This weekend, during my trip to Vermont with
cowgrrl i was frequently taken as female. As in Niagara Falls i didn't do anything special to promote one gender perception or another, wearing tee-shirt, jeans, and sneaker, and no makeup. Without a kid and with some age difference between us, and perhaps being in what we suspect was a gay vacation enclave (if so, a very closeted one, but not without hints), people just saw us as two women on vacation together.
