cosmolinguist | Topsoil and other genders (Reply)

I keep being told how dadcore I am and I haven't felt like it in a while, but this Father's Day I've mowed the lawn while listening to a baseball podcast, so that has probably re-upped the dad vibes.

Earlier this week D shared a meme of "what five things would summon your gender," and when he asked me what mine would be, of course my first answer was "dunno" because I am still agender. But after much effort, the only thing I could think of was "lawnmower." Heh.

It wasn't quite a joke answer though. I'd love to have something more farming, to represent my upbringing and the value I put on six inches of topsoil and the fact that it rains. And also how much work it is. And how I really do like outside chores; I'm always happy to help MB in the garden. But I'm not the farmer or the gardener, I don't know anything like as much as my dad and MB do. I'm the himbo who mows the lawn because it's a physical task that I can't really mess up.

Other things I've since thought of:

My white cane (my gender would be so different without my blindness)
a vest (US)/waistcoat (UK)
Suspenders (US)/braces (UK)
I'd have to steal one of D's list of five things: "various kink paraphernalia" (I'm finding it as unsurprising as it is inconvenient that my gender now seems so closely connected to my sexuality)
the International Phonetic Alphabet chart
a glasses chain
Cargo shorts (or maybe cargo pants, but I'm thinking cargo shorts)
Stitch (as in "Lilo &")