Vacation from gender. Please?

The statement "I need to take a vacation from gender" is very often floating around my brain. Any drama or angst caused by the cruelness of the gender system I did not sign up for but have to deal with on daily basis inevitably reaches the point of "I need to take a vacation from gender".  This happens often enough that when I found the awesome genderfork website I submitted it and it was posted (huzzah!). 

It's strange and sad that it is absolutely true and utterly impossible all at the same time. 

Adventures in Androgyny: Hesitate

There's this moment when strangers address me, a moment of hesitation before they pick a pronoun when they trip over their words or awkwardly pause because they're unsure which to use. I always enjoy that moment because it feels like up until they had to consciously pick a pronoun they were just seeing me.

Adventures in Androgyny

Laser tag tonight:

Kid 1: "He's right around the corner! Shoot him!"
Kid 2: "She's a girl!"
Kid 1: "Then shoot her!"
Kid 3: "He's clearly a boy."
Me: *shoots them all and runs away cackling*