What is “self-identifying”?
Why do this?
Why hedge it? Why say “self-identifying woman” instead of just “woman”?
Why can’t women just be women any more?
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Why do this?
Why hedge it? Why say “self-identifying woman” instead of just “woman”?
Why can’t women just be women any more?
Well that excludes women that just are women. Convenient.
Does the use of the -ettes suffix give the game away?
I can honestly say I have self-identified as a woman, every time I check the correct box next to my sex on those forms the doctor makes us sign.
But that’s not really self-identifying, is it? Just reporting observable reality.
Actually this sounds quite an interesting opportunity.
Can I self-identify as a “woman between 16-18 years old” to qualify? Or is being born in the last century going to disqualify me; in a way that having lived all of those years as a man and having no intention of changing any aspect of my life – doesn’t.
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Only gender is subject to the magic of self-identification.
When I was 16-18, though very interested in (and good at) STEM, I found the fact of being a woman to be a very annoying and inconvenient aspect of my existence, not something I would want to identify with, or as. So I guess “stemettes” (what a horrible word) would not have been for me.