No Style No. 26: You don’t even want to know about the Easter Bunny.
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The fact that this happens more often than you might think is one of the primary reasons why, at the ripe age of 27, I’m already a card-carrying member of the Cantankerous Old Men ClubTM.
No, I’m not really that mean - though you can bet this and far worse things often run through my head when I find myself in a situation like this for the millionth time. I have given a few people very politely-worded anatomy lessons regarding the fact that women, on average, have breasts - while I tend to be distinctly lacking in that area. They generally decline lesson two on more in-depth anatomical differences. I do so wonder why.
It’s mostly my face that gets me in trouble; I’m not particularly feminine otherwise. The part that amuses me, though, is that people often treat me as if I chose to be born with the face of a particularly angry and murderous three-year-old Korean girl. [eyeroll] Yes, people, while I was just a wee zygote I decided, “Hey, I think I’ll develop into a poofy-lipped big-eyed boy-thing of outwardly indeterminate gender. That’ll be fun!” Of course, I might not get mistaken for female so often if I’d let Carlos have his wicked way with me and cut my hair, but I found out the hard way a few years ago that short hair doesn’t do anything for me. Short hair makes me look like an extremely butch lesbian.
No, I’m not kidding. Sihaya and Indikaze may remember that episode. Four feet of hair gone in a matter of minutes, leaving me staring in horror and wondering what the hell I’d just done.
So I will deal with being naturally androgynous, and with the amusement and annoyance it causes, and think my snarky thoughts to myself, and move on. And speaking of moving on, now that I’ve bored you with this oh-so-fascinating ramble…I’m out until tomorrow.
Oh, and by the way, the art on this one stinks.
~Adri
no style, gay comics, webcomics, humor, gay comic strip, androgyny
November 26th, 2007 at 2:50 am
Replacing the broken bottle there?
It’s pretty bad on the opposite side of the spectrum, too. Must have gone through pictures of dozen different boyfriends on my desk over the year I worked at my last job and it took taking a guy to the Christmas party for anyone to get that I was gay.
Then there was begging off being hooked up with the boss’s daughter, questions on whether I have a girlfriend, and being specifically snubbed from drinks after work when they decided to go to a gay bar (seeing as I looked to be too conservative to enjoy myself).
November 26th, 2007 at 2:55 am
…boy, it’s almost two o’clock in the morning. Go to bed.
The more you describe yourself as conservative, the more I picture you as a balding, ruddy, middle-aged man with a pot belly. ~flees~
November 26th, 2007 at 3:09 am
*pout* I’m not my father …
Alright, Mom, I’m going to sleep. Sheesh.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:13 am
~twitch~ I will bite you.
Oh, and by the way, you just won the 1,000-comments contest.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:23 am
… and I’m staying clear of that beautiful gem.
Hooray, I win!
November 26th, 2007 at 6:02 am
Congratulatiooooons =D
November 26th, 2007 at 7:40 am
Nothing wrong with androgyny, it works *very* well for some. You could ask any ten of my friends, and I assure you that a good three to six of them would say that androgyny is hot. And that some of them would be males.
Admittedly, a lot of my friends are bi-, pan- and very occasionally asexual, but the point still stands!
November 26th, 2007 at 11:55 am
Oooooh someone won the comment contest! Congratuwelldones.
November 26th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
…waitasec…four feet of hair? As in, hair four feet long? that is moderatly impressive. Even my hair is only about two and a half feet long. Four feet would about touch the ground.
November 26th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
I think I *vaguely* remember that haircut. Didn’t make you any less pretty. =P
And congrats to Kujo.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Right now I’m kiiiiinda sorry I didn’t save those pics 8D
November 26th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
“Didn’t make you any less pretty.”
~watches the last remaining shreds of his masculinity flutter to the ground and die, unmourned and forgotten~
Shirvona: Yep. Only on me, four feet of hair was barely around knee-length.
Sihaya: ~glowers~ I’m not. Although back then, it was creepy how from the right angles, Takeshii and I looked like brothers.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
I am mistaken for a woman frequently, but only from behind (I have long hair). My favorite such episode was in a men’s bathroom in a department store. There were two kids, about 6 and 7, without a parent present. The youngest one says, “Why is there a girl in the boy’s bathroom?” - And they proceed to have a debate about my gender.
The best part is, I was actually using a urinal at the time. I decided to forgo the anatomy lesson. >_
November 26th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
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November 26th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
*smirks, quietly marks off another notch on the side of her laptop*
November 26th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
~grumbles~ If I didn’t like you so much, I’d bite you, too.
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:46 am
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