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Gyrl:Tell me a story.

Gyrl:Please.0

Tale2Tell:We need more fuzzy thinkers!

Mythter:Yes, Tale2.

Tom:Wait, isn’t anyone going to speak up on behalf of what’s natural?

Dick:Male and Female He created them. And that comes from the best selling book of all time.

Harry:Amen, Dick.

Private Message to Gyrl

Mythter:Once upon a time…

Gyrl:::settling down at your knee, listening::

Mythter:… in a faraway land, there lived a very beautiful gyrl.

Gyrl:::resting my head in your lap, listening::

Mythter:Only no one knew she was beautiful because she was invisible. They only knew her voice.

Genuine1:I believe that every human being is FAR too different… has met with FAR too unique circumstances… to be able to know the mind of any others.

Gyrl:Gotcha, Gen, and I think that by calling ourselves MEN or WOMEN, we deny ourselves the uniqueness you talk about.

Private Message to Mythter

Gyrl:::softly:: So this gyrl, all she had was a voice?

Mythter:Uh huh. And they all loved her until…

Gyrl:Until?

Mythter:Until one day, a child asked, “Is that a boy or a girl?”

Gyrl:Oh geez.

Tale2Tell:Actually, I’ve always thought that the poles of gender were like chaotic attractors, anyway…

Gyrl:::wincing:: I think we need to do away with the image of opposite poles when it comes to gender.

Tale2Tell:No no, Gyrl. Chaotic attractors are different: you can orbit them, never touch.

Catch 22:Binaries will always exist.

Giant:Some people will always need labels. The rest of us just won’t care.

Private Message to Mythter

Gyrl:And no one could see her.

Mythter:Right.

Gyrl:And she liked it that way.

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