The Man

[_Dr. Shades]

Have you ever read a book on an LGBT topic?

I read my textbook for my human sexuality class back in 1996. It covered LGBT issues extensively. Does that count?

[_lulu]

Have you ever read a book on an LGBT topic?

I read my textbook for my human sexuality class back in 1996. It covered LGBT issues extensively. Does that count?

Did it cover hijras?

[_Dr. Shades]

Did it cover hijras?

Not the Southeast Asian variety per se, but it covered males self-identifying as females.

So, is that what you wanted me to learn by reading a book on LGBT issues? That some males identify as females? That's very old news.

[Guest]

Did it cover hijras?

Not the Southeast Asian variety per se, but it covered males self-identifying as females.

So, is that what you wanted me to learn by reading a book on LGBT issues? That some males identify as females? That's very old news.

But are hijras males? Do they identify themselves as females? I don't think that's how they understand themselves from anything I've read.

They would object to the western binary of male/female and trinary of straight, bi, gay. That's something modern Westerns have made up.

Whether I want you to learn something, I don't think so.

Do you want to learn something new? That's up to you. I don't get envolved in other people's business that way.

Discussing with some nuance and understanding of the roles power plays in creating categories? How I see that as affecting my life. Yes, those are things that I like to do with others.

[Guest]

Engineer shirt if I ever saw one. :)

I like it, but the dear husband is of the engineering sort. (Yay!)

[_madeleine]

No.

[_madeleine]

Z might be a closet hipster.