arise with gender-neutral names:
True comment:
I am a big man (6'-5", 280 lbs) with a very low voice. However, I was
blessed at birth with an ethnic first name which is (in this country)
a girl's name. I go by my middle name, which is a normal one.
Two fun things happen all the time. First, when I receive a phone call
from someone who asks for (my first name) I know immediately that they
have no clue who I am, so I always reply "This is she", which usually
draws stunned silence.
The second is when I hand my credit card to a salesclerk. Most of them
don't look, but a lot of them will ask "who is (my first name)?" or
"where is she?" I'll say some thing like, "You're looking at her".
What is not fun is trying to convince airport security that I am who
my ticket says I am. Sometimes two forms of ID and a masculine middle
name are just not enough, but I suppose Mom and Dad had no way to see
that one coming.
Another:
Mud, I too was "blessed" with a name of the opposite persuasion. My
favorite was when I received a letter from a health center saying that
they had mistakenly scheduled me for an appointment with the Urologist
and asked me to call and reschedule with the proper doctor. Of course
the Urologist was the proper Dr.
These examples illustrate my point better than my hypothetical
situations ever could.
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