X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fchromatic-key.md;h=3ae3625c63d9fbebe6894ae571efd8fa0cdc6a8c;hb=1fb55691d167a137548ff454d7bfa4ac0659f325;hp=227104669ba6a5d5956e42f87a2d478573029a34;hpb=da7d95083fcea117538062f4aed797322d64d768;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/drafts/chromatic-key.md b/content/drafts/chromatic-key.md index 2271046..3ae3625 100644 --- a/content/drafts/chromatic-key.md +++ b/content/drafts/chromatic-key.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Status: draft I had occasion to sing a little song at a party recently, whereupon a trans woman who was present—let's call her "Karen"—immediately asked if I was gay. (I'm not.) When talking with her later, mentioning that our mutual friend had been trying to convince me that I was trans (which kind of backfired, incidentally, but that's another story), she stressed that anyone who sung like me had to be either gay or a trans woman. -Later, another friend who had been present for the latter exchange and I agreed that this was bizarre—like, that's not what those words mean! Gay men are men who are attracted to men; trans women were males who decided to transition. +Later, another friend who had been present for the latter exchange and I agreed that this was bizarre—like, that's not what those words mean! Gay men are men who are attracted to men; trans women were males who decided to transition. I'm a man who's attracted to women But _we were wrong_ and _Karen was right_. People on the androphilic MtF spectrum tend to have naturally feminine vocal mannerisms; people on the autogynephilic spectrum have a natrual incentive to fake it. (And I _do_ fake it.) With neither the inclination nor the incentive, normal straight men _don't sing like me_, and Karen was _exactly right_ to pick up on this, even \ No newline at end of file