tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876382935767131098.post9022623292688894750..comments2023-03-25T11:06:38.957-04:00Comments on Queering the Line: Cases of Mistaken IdentitySumner McRaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01949172226210854688noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876382935767131098.post-52650060557174841852011-12-10T12:41:50.653-05:002011-12-10T12:41:50.653-05:00I feel like sometimes people are being willful abo...I feel like sometimes people are being willful about missing other cues if someone doesn't nail particular parts of their checklist- when my sister was about six weeks old, my mother was out with her, dressed pretty much head to toe in frilly pink whatsits, and someone stops to coo at the baby. "How old is your son?" "Oh, she's my daughter, and she's about six weeks." "It's a girl? Why haven't you had her ears pierced?" <br />Seriously. And that's with a baby, who so far as we know, aren't really capable of being offended or annoyed by being misidentified, and for whom clothing manufacturers have made it fairly difficult to NOT trumpet gender identity.Conspyrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14135525348326754627noreply@blogger.com