1575 Hurting Pace's feelings.

[evile]

Aug. 19, 2003

 

 

Totally bad timing on that, too, because Pace & Erin just broke up.

But...feh.

It all started with Portal of Evil posting a site of medical
oddities, notably ones centered on female ovary & uterus disorders. I
found some of endometriosis, my personal demon, and posted them in my
LJ, just to sort of refute all that nonsense in C--T about how cool
menstruation is and how awesome the uterus is and how wonderful it is
to give birth and how evil and rotten men are who invented hormonal
birth control and how deluded we women who use it are.

So Pace posts a little flippant "Jealous?" in my comments. No biggie.

My answer was...tactless. Basically I said I didn't understand why
someone would willingly choose to be female. No answer.

And then, on realizing how tactless that was, I also realized that
the womens movement members who believe that womanhood is only
achieved by having a functional uterus are also rejecting women like
Pace, who (for whatever reason) have *chosen* to go through with
various chemical treatments & surgeries in order to be outwardly
female.

I guess I need to try harder to explain/apologize to Pace.

Lots of my friends have hobbies & interests that don't interest me. I
have friends who absolutely *must* attend every weekend of every
renaissance faire. I have friends who are as adamant about being at
HFS stuff. Collecting X men comic books, or all the works of ____
artist. Max is intent on covering himself with tattoos (matching his
outer self to that which he perceives as 'self' or playing "look at
me I'm a freak"?) Not my place to question or judge. People need to
do whatever makes them feel good about themselves & their lives. I
wasn't trying to belittle Pace's choice, just really ... I don't
understand.