not that I want to be agender or male or even to be anything other than female.

But I would like to be able to go to work and just have nobody notice me specifically for being female.

I understand what you mean

And since I work in a male- dominated field which is getting a lot better about sexism but is still pretty full of machismo, and can only exPect the environment to change so fast -

That being treated like the Other because of what you are

Yes.

I know the senior nonrate here was creeping on me on Facebook, and complained to my shipmate about my having cut off all my hair.

Oh fuck right off, your shorthair is the cutest thing

And one of them at one point told me to take my glasses off "so I can see what you look like."

Why the fuck does it matter what you look like

B|

As long as you do your job

D:

And then "stop making that stupid face"

Do it to spite him

I DID.

I will develop a wide variety of stupid faces for you to make

I only cut my hair because I hate you

But anyway yeah it's like. "you wouldn't care what I looked like no matter how think my glasses are if I was a dude. "

being othered. it's weird.

Men regulating female appearances B|

I'm sorry.

it makes me want to be able to pack parts of myself away, for safekeeping, while society gets where it needs to be.

I am here to do my job, which is challenging, and sometimes I don't want to have to add the female - in -the -workplace struggle to it.

But I am female, and ultimately, I think society should change before I do, so. on goes the struggle.

Shae that article is so perfect and beautiful

It is

that is a very long plurk name

it is...in fact, how did you even get your plurk name that long? mine won't even let me put in a display name with just 20 characters...

...yeah I was coming around to that

idk. I'm using the mobile app tho and maybe it has different coding where names area concerned?

maybe /strokes chin