Random babblings for the day

Noticed today (and recently) that I'm apparently having weird pronoun issues. I keep finding myself feeling a need to verify that gender-specific pronouns I use are accurate. I begin to think my life would be much easier if I didn't have to think about such things, since for the most part, I tend to not do so automatically.

Technically, I tend to have trouble with *most* things relating to physical presence. Which is likely why I have such a hard time describing people. People are not a visual presence, or a name, in my head. They are their expressed ideas, the emotions I pick up, and the general sense they give off. I'm sure there's more to people in my head than these, but those are what came to mind first.

Attaching a person to a name is not an automatic or default thing for me to do. Especially since I already have trouble with words.


I find this LiveJournal thing really funny, 'cause now I get a single place for my babbling, rather than babbling at various people and/or email lists. Not that I expect to *stop* babbling at people; it just makes it easier if I have a general babble instead of a specifically directed one.


StarHawk has an interesting Notice on her page today. She often does, actually. I've started snagging ones I find especially interesting to put onto my own (semi-up-to-date) home page.


I'm currently having a certain sense of amusement vaguely relating to the topic with which I started my babbling. I find it ironic that, throughout my life, I tend to be randomly physically attracted to far more women than men. But, I generally get along much better with men. It's almost as if my mind can't quite figure out how to deal with the fact that I tend to appreciate 'pretty', and 'pretty' is not generally a term one can use on men (at least not without offending). So, it just plain ignores the whole question, unless I consciously think about it. And, *if* I consciously think about it, I do tend to notice that those men to whom I am otherwise attracted are 'cute' and/or 'pretty'. But, then, 'cute' has a similar problem to 'pretty'. It feels weird to apply it to men...

As far as the getting along better with men issue, I think I'm just too damn picky about the women I get along with. On the plus side, I think I've recently found a woman that I very much and very easily get along with. The amount of shock caused by that realization was amazing. I have a couple others I get along with really well outside of family members, and the ones *inside* my family are probably not people I'd spend time with if I were not related to them. Very different world-views.


This piece of my babble is actually making me laugh, when combined with my initial 'pronouns confuse me' comments. Pronouns may confuse me, but I still make distinctions based on gender. Go figure. This would be why I don't tend to claim to make any sense outside of my own head. Of course, I don't tend to claim all that much about myself, so that's probably not news. ;)

Must be my habit of trying to find patterns in order to make life make a bit more sense that makes me notice things like the above. Ah well. Enough random babbles for the moment.

Random babblings for the day

Noticed today (and recently) that I'm apparently having weird pronoun issues. I keep finding myself feeling a need to verify that gender-specific pronouns I use are accurate. I begin to think my life would be much easier if I didn't have to think about such things, since for the most part, I tend to not do so automatically.

Technically, I tend to have trouble with *most* things relating to physical presence. Which is likely why I have such a hard time describing people. People are not a visual presence, or a name, in my head. They are their expressed ideas, the emotions I pick up, and the general sense they give off. I'm sure there's more to people in my head than these, but those are what came to mind first.

Attaching a person to a name is not an automatic or default thing for me to do. Especially since I already have trouble with words.


I find this LiveJournal thing really funny, 'cause now I get a single place for my babbling, rather than babbling at various people and/or email lists. Not that I expect to *stop* babbling at people; it just makes it easier if I have a general babble instead of a specifically directed one.


StarHawk has an interesting Notice on her page today. She often does, actually. I've started snagging ones I find especially interesting to put onto my own (semi-up-to-date) home page.


I'm currently having a certain sense of amusement vaguely relating to the topic with which I started my babbling. I find it ironic that, throughout my life, I tend to be randomly physically attracted to far more women than men. But, I generally get along much better with men. It's almost as if my mind can't quite figure out how to deal with the fact that I tend to appreciate 'pretty', and 'pretty' is not generally a term one can use on men (at least not without offending). So, it just plain ignores the whole question, unless I consciously think about it. And, *if* I consciously think about it, I do tend to notice that those men to whom I am otherwise attracted are 'cute' and/or 'pretty'. But, then, 'cute' has a similar problem to 'pretty'. It feels weird to apply it to men...

As far as the getting along better with men issue, I think I'm just too damn picky about the women I get along with. On the plus side, I think I've recently found a woman that I very much and very easily get along with. The amount of shock caused by that realization was amazing. I have a couple others I get along with really well outside of family members, and the ones *inside* my family are probably not people I'd spend time with if I were not related to them. Very different world-views.


This piece of my babble is actually making me laugh, when combined with my initial 'pronouns confuse me' comments. Pronouns may confuse me, but I still make distinctions based on gender. Go figure. This would be why I don't tend to claim to make any sense outside of my own head. Of course, I don't tend to claim all that much about myself, so that's probably not news. ;)

Must be my habit of trying to find patterns in order to make life make a bit more sense that makes me notice things like the above. Ah well. Enough random babbles for the moment.