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Re: "if that makes any difference"

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Monday, February 28, 2005, 19:56
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From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>


>I still dislike the question "what is your gender", as my answer perhaps > made clear.
:) However, asking you what is your "sex" sounds slightly obscene to me... maybe because I've read too many Victorian soft adult novels. "Gender" seems to be the going word these days, like it or lump it. My sex is male. My sexual orientation is straight ("but
> not narrow!" - a bumper sticker I hate, as it sounds too much like "Some > of my best friends are gay!"). I'm also right-handed, > as well as bearded, brunet, bespectacled, and Alithuanian.
I'm right-handed but left-eyed, so that gives me mixed-brain dominance; I'm straight and I don't hate the bumper sticker because I actually do have best friends who are gay; I wear really cool reading glasses that I got for a huge sum of money at "One Hip Chick" (titanium, very light, bronze-shading into purple at the edges), red-headed out of a bottle--with highlights that come and go, no beard, and my ancestors hail from Stuttgart on my father's side and from Ireland on my mother's side. Sometimes I dream lucidly.
> Someone mentioned that sexuality and handedness are, of course, points > along a continuum. So to define my points more precisely: In Kinsey scale > terms, however out of vogue that is these days, I'm probably about a 2. > On an analogous handedness scale from 0 (completely right handed) > through 3 (completely ambidextrous) to 6 (completely left-handed) I'm > verrry close to zero.
How does that work for women with mixed brain dominance? Sally

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