I might live in a differently-banal area, but I have rarely been asked
what I do.
"Where do you live?" is a more common question. "What are your
pronouns?" is big. On trains, "where are you going and what are you
doing there?" At gatherings, "how do you know X?"
People more often ask my husband what he does. Those people rarely ask
me. I suspect there's some pink-coding going on, an assumption that what
he does is more important or interesting than what I do.
Most initial interactions focus on what's going on in the present, some
comment about the location, the event, the weather. Facts about the
person emerge over time.
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Heather Madrone ([email protected])
Blog: http://www.knitfitter.com/category/personal/
http://sheltershock.thecomicseries.com
The Goddess moves mountains -- bring a shovel.
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