Geek genderbender

[azurelunatic]

In my lofty position as chickfriend to an assortment of geekboys, and also geek and liking the ladies myself, I consider myself both in and out of the position of Actual Female. I have Female Perspective on some things, but I don't consider myself in the class when I'm giving the geekboys advice on the ladies.

's weird.

Part of this is because I am not standard-issue female, and some things that typically work on the subset of "the ladies" that they're going after just don't work on me, and some of the things I utterly dig are not things that their special interest subset of "the ladies" just don't dig.

It's weird.

Comments

[jdllama.livejournal.com]

Eeep, I know I started this. I didn't mean to put you in an awkward position or make you feel weird, but to be honest, you're one of my best, most honest friends whenever there's an issue with "The Ladies".

Sorry :p

[azurelunatic]

It's not a problem. I was just replying, "The ladies don't know what they're missing!" to that comment of yours, and then realized it came out as if I were not, in fact, a lady.

Which I am, but for the purposes of my advising about the ladies, I generally don't think of myself as one, even though I'm trying to think like one, which is probably where the mismatch is...