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Katarina Whimsy ([personal profile] sorcyress) wrote in [personal profile] canyonwalker 2022-02-01 11:55 am (UTC)

Huh! After reading your journal idly for like three months, I'm having a sudden moment of "we don't actually know where Punt is"1 as your offhand mention of bachelordom and wife means maybe my assumption that you're a woman is incorrect!

(Not that there aren't plenty of women with wives, who'd refer to themselves as bachelors, but the clever gamble is that people-with-wives are men...)

This is interesting to me both because it's always interesting to look at what gender gets assumed (based off what cues? I don't know that I could tell you. Maybe a vague assumption that everyone writing online is female or queer because men don't journal?) and because it's interesting to think about the process of making friends (especially online) and what pieces get revealed when.

((Anyways, don't feel you have to reveal any specific demographic data about yourself in response to this! I just was amused and pleased to realize the assumptions/knowledge-gap and thought you might find it amusing as well.))

~Sor (who is nonbinary but also who talks about themself in the third person a lot more often so that might be easier to figure out)


1: You know, the thing where ancient Egyptian records have told us lots and lots about the great trading partner of Punt, but no one ever bothered to write down where exactly it was, because obviously that's common knowledge.

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