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STOP assuming my gender!

2017-06-21 · 4 min

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    So last week it happened again. 2 people

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    assumed my gender and got it wrong. So

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    this guy comes into the store and he asked

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    me, where's your beers, love? Love?

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    Seriously, you don't talk to a guy and

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    call him love. So he walked straight past

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    the beers and then he had the nerve to ask

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    me where the beers were. Maybe if you

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    opened your eyes, you would have realized

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    that the beers were right in front of you

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    and you would have realized that I'm a

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    guy, not a girl. How could you even think

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    that I look like a girl? So I said to him,

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    the beers are over there, and as soon as

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    the sound of my manly voice penetrated his

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    ear holes, he was all shocked and

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    surprised, and he said, oh, sorry, I

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    didn't see you back there properly. Maybe

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    you should get your eyes tested then.

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    There's so many customers are like this.

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    They'll come into the store and they'll

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    walk straight past the beers without even

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    looking and ask me where the beers are.

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    It drives me nuts. Or you get these

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    customers that search around the store

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    frantically looking for the beers, and

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    then they're like, oh, I can't find the

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    beers. Where are your beers, love? I

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    seriously think we need to make some kind

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    of gigantic sign that says beer on it to

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    prevent these people from having some kind

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    of mental breakdown from the idea of not

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    being able to feed their alcohol addiction

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    that night. And then this other customer

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    came up to me the next day with a box of

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    beers and asked me, what kind of beer is

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    this, love? I don't know what kind of beer

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    it is. It's beer. It tastes like all the

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    other beers. How am I supposed to know

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    what all the beers taste like? What a

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    stupid question. And again with the love.

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    Do I look like a love? Do I? Do I? What is

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    it with English people and English

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    speakers with this need of theirs to

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    attach gender-based titles onto the end of

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    sentences? For example, thanks man,

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    thanks dude, thanks bro, thanks mate. I am

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    not your mate. Don't just decide for

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    yourself that we are going to be mates.

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    There shall be no mating between us. Now

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    most of the time the word mate is used by

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    guys talking to other guys, but then

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    sometimes you get these masculine women

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    who also like to use the word mate for

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    some reason, and if a girl says to me,

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    thanks mate, it's just really weird and

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    nothing makes my testicles want to crawl

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    back up from where they dropped from

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    faster. For girls, there's things like

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    thanks love, thanks darling, thanks young

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    lady. Even if I was a girl, I'd still find

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    it kind of irritating to be called young

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    lady or love just because it sounds really

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    patronizing. Anyway, I guess I shouldn't

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    blame those British guys too much for

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    mistaking me for a woman because I guess

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    they're just not used to seeing

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    feminine-looking guys that aren't bald and

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    overweight, that don't look like they're 9

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    months pregnant. Sorry if I just described

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    you perfectly. You look fabulous, I swear.

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    No, seriously, 90% of the men in this

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    country look like they're about to give

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    birth to a child in a few weeks' time,

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    and they think I look like a girl? At

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    least I don't look like I'm 9 months

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    pregnant. I actually really don't mind it

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    if people mistake me for a girl, and I

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    take it as a huge compliment because I

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    find feminine features more aesthetically

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    pleasing than masculine features. It's

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    just that the thing I hate about it is

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    it's so awkward when some guy calls you

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    love or young lady and they think you're a

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    girl, and then after they hear your voice,

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    they don't know what to do. They don't

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    know if they should apologize or if they

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    should just pretend it never happened.

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    There's another strange thing with me,

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    and that's age. People like to assume my

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    age, and they often think I'm 10 years

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    younger than I actually am. There's this

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    girl that sometimes comes into the store,

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    and when she buys stuff, she'll say,

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    thanks, young man. Young man? I've seen

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    her driving license, and it said 1999.

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    She's 10 years younger than me, and she's

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    calling me a young man? I said to her,

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    I'm not that young, you know. I'm actually

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    28. And she said, there's no way you're 10

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    years older than me. And then she just

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    walked off laughing.

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