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[eirias]

The artist behind the first webcomic I ever enjoyed came out today as transgender. I had one of those celebrity crushes on him for quite some time, and now, presto... he's a woman! I wonder if that makes me a retroactive lesbian? :)

Seriously, though, it seems to me that as long as gender identity and sexual identity are viewed categorically, you'll wind up with relationships that you can't explain very easily. Like "I'm a gay man in a relationship with someone who's now a woman," or "I'm a straight woman in a relationship with someone who plans to transition to life as a man next year." Not that moving from category to continuum makes anything easier to describe in words, really, but at least you wouldn't come across these ... pseudocontradictions, where the relationship makes total sense, actually, and it's only that you don't have the right words to make other people see how it all fits.

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[eirias.livejournal.com]

You know, some people are trying to introduce the word "ze," which I just realized sounds more or less exactly like "Sie" :).

[sagittalbreast.livejournal.com]

Would it be wise to create another homonym in the english language? I'm kind of fed up with english. Did you know that Wikipedia is also in Esperanto?

http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%88efpa%C4%9Do

[eirias.livejournal.com]

Homonymous with what? The letter Z? I can't think of anything else that sounds the same... and the other alphabet-sound-alikes don't cause many problems (a, bee, sea/see, de-, gee!, I, jay, cay, oh, pee, queue, tea/tee, you/ewe, ex, why?).

Also, I think I did know that about Wikipedia, and I think it's kind of funny but also kind of lame ;).

[eirias.livejournal.com]

oh, and are!

[upsilon.livejournal.com]

Did you know that Wikipedia is also in Latin?

<http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/pagina_prima>

(I'm catching up on LJ, that's why this is three weeks late...)