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[P I'm genderless (or gender-agnostic) and sexophobic, and I'm trying
to get (more) out of the closet about that.]

[P I live in a city - Rio de Janeiro - where people think that if
you're not interested in sex then it's because you are either
religious or an inferior.]

[P I've been a "militant sexophobic" since late 2002. Quite a lot of
things have changed around me in these years, but that is a long story
that I'm not going to tell now.]

[P In the late 90's I used to hang around with angry militant
lesbians. With them - and with terrorists - I learned that when you're
part of a very tiny minority with no visibility at all then your
strategies have to be very different than when you're part of a
well-known, respected minority. And if you're a minority of one, then
things are even more different - for example: being loud and
unpredictable often works well, and trying to be well-behaved works
very little. You need to "exist" - and the key points for that are
visibility and self-esteem. Also, there's no group to protect - and
"Fortune favors the bold".]

[P Gender - as something separate from sex, and independent of
physical appearance - is something that so few people from my city
understand that I had to stop mentioning it. Being openly sexophobic
already offends too much - I have placed myself outside of the
courting hierarchy; I've rejected the common values. And I'm looking
for kinds of relationships that people from my generation have learned
to say, "that doesn't exist".]

[P (2007may17)]



[# 2008jun22:

Goodbye, real world.
I spent four years there, in cheap jobs among stupid people with huge egos.
They used to say that there was where the real money was.
What a waste.
What a lie.

Die, real people, die.

2008sep25:

I will never pass.
I just need to stand 40 more years. Then I'm free.
http://www.amptoons.com/blog/files/mcintosh.html


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