I Am A Bad Libertarian
If I were officially made Queen of Social Engineering tomorrow I would designate one accessory that men aren’t allowed to wear (ribbons in hair?) and one that women aren’t allowed to wear (skullcaps?) and make it very clear that violating the rule is not done and basically amounts to forfeiting your gender.
Then I would walk around in public with hair ties and everyone would unambiguously read me as female.
petition: can you add one that only nonbinary people are allowed to wear
maybe we can be the only ones allowed to have undercuts?
Well, actually this would end up being freedom-maximizing in the pragmatic sense because the outcome of having one quite thoroughly consensual and relatively strongly gender-correlating signal would be objectively far less bullshitty than the current state of affairs where people care about gender a lot but refuse to have an unambiguous protocol for positioning oneself within it and thus end up having massive systems of bullshit instead.
It’d be very effective gender harm-reduction.
(Also, is wearing a skullcap with ribbons in your undercut the one which you use to signal “agender” because you’d be forfeiting all genders?)
(via ozymandias271)
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trashworks reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin and added:that would be bigenderi don’t think visual markers are the best idea, they mess with fashion and, i mean, this would be...
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mathemagicalschema said: as a trans dude I feel this so hard. I butch it up as much as I can and nobody bats an eye.- mathemagicalschema liked this
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amakthel reblogged this from ozymandias271 and added:Well, presumably nonbinary people could wear bothHowever, I like undercuts, hard as they are for me to maintain, so I...
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russianmountains reblogged this from ozymandias271 and added:I am extremely offended that you would even consider taking cute girls with undercuts away from the world.
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ozymandias271 reblogged this from sinesalvatorem and added:petition: can you add one that only nonbinary people are allowed to wearmaybe we can be the only ones allowed to have...
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brin-bellway liked this- brin-bellway said: I suspect that in general, the sort of places with enough crossdressing to *need* pronoun pins are exactly the sort of places that would most readily adopt them.
- brin-bellway said: There are some social spaces–I think mostly fandom conventions atm–where it is completely socially acceptable and mildly encouraged to wear a button with pronouns written on it. A pronoun pin supersedes all other gender markers, but people whose pin would be congruent with their other markers are encouraged to wear them anyway to help normalise them.
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blastfarmer said: Perhaps nice, simple, removable, unambiguous lapel pins to designate gender?
speakertoyesterday reblogged this from sinesalvatorem and added:Because dresses are swirly and contra is fun?
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