CFC & Gender

[dulcinbradbury.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking that nearly all the CFC practitioners I know (who didn't start out as big name authors) are female. So I was thinking that a poll was in order:

[Poll #1414476]

Comments

Cool!

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

This is a great idea for a poll.

For what it's worth, my body is female (as far as I know) and my personality leans masculine. In sociodynamics I register as female or queer; I don't get the Male-in-Patriarchy perks. I describe myself as metasexual.

Re: Cool!

[just-the-ash.livejournal.com]

"Metasexual." I used that word the day I caught myself staring at a loved one's breast, which was at the time covered by a t-shirt image of a retro science fiction-y woman who herself had a very lovely, if 2-D, rack. But I guess that's not what it means, eh?

Re: Cool!

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

I am so glad I did not have my mouth full while reading your icon. "Shag" ... *snert*

For a while, I described myself as "omnisexual" or "pansexual." But part of my genderqueer nature comes from having farmemory of many lives, bodies, species, genders ... after a while, one tends to stop obsessing over physical details so much, and focus on the personality. I prefer being male, or otherly sexed, but I also prefer being something other than human and I'm not getting much of that either this time. It's an annoyance, but it's not likely to destroy my life, because I remain aware that I am not my body. There is a part of me that is always a little beyond it, and "meta" means "beyond." It's a tag for all manner of things that are outside ordinary categories. I may outgrow the "metasexual" description, but it's stuck around for a while and I like it.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I notice in your "not yet" choice that for females you add "but I want to," but you don't add that for males.

[dulcinbradbury.livejournal.com]

Whoops! I'd actually broken it out into multiple questions & then combined to make it simpler. I dropped it by mistake. Since I can't fix it now, I'd ask that any men who fall into "Not yet" comment, I suppose.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Well, this is an interesting skew still.

[dulcinbradbury.livejournal.com]

Indeed. O_o

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised though.

[dulcinbradbury.livejournal.com]

Nor am I, honestly. It fit with my initial guess.

You know, this is one of those nights when I really wish I could take you out for tea or something. :)

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Eep? What did I do? O_O

[dulcinbradbury.livejournal.com]

Oh this is totally me! I've spent WAAAAAAAAAAY too much time reading very frustrating things online today. And after turning down my options for going out (due to migraine issues), I'm craving being social. But... quietly so.

And somehow you're the type of person that I think would be a good choice for that right now. :) You'd just be nice to have tea with.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

I'd certainly enjoy it. :)

I'm sorry about the frustrating-online stuff. It has seemed like that kind of week, hasn't it? I've been feeling abraded myself.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

My partner Doug pointed out that there are some branches of cyberfunded creativity, such as webcomics and gaming, that are not heavily represented in our sample but do have more male participation.