Aella on Twitter: "@liminal_warmth when i see someone, i peg them immediately as 'has a dick or not', which informs how i interpret the ways they treat me and the ways i should treat them so I send the correct signals. This feels basically totally universal, irrespective of most contexts, except mebbe gay bars" / Twitter

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Sep 5, 2021

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For me personally, I suspect register people as male/female so I can track their relationship to me sexually (are they gonna try to bang me, are other men gonna try to bang her). Even if the situation is fully desexualized, it still feels like it matters?

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like, theres lots of scenarios i've been in where males and females interact super androgynously in a lot of ways, but very few scenarios where i am not at risk at sexual interest from males. not professionally, not during times of trauma, almost not ever

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when i see someone, i peg them immediately as 'has a dick or not', which informs how i interpret the ways they treat me and the ways i should treat them so I send the correct signals. This feels basically totally universal, irrespective of most contexts, except mebbe gay bars

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im also talkin like this is conscious, but i think most of it's subconscious and it's my theory for how i work, and I think my subconscious picks up on general presentation as opposed to specifically the dick thing; uses gender presentation as proxy for dick, sometimes inaccurate

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(and in case i wasnt already clear, my subconscious brain appears to believe passing trans women don't have a penis, and passing trans men don't have a vagina, despite consciously knowing this is often incorrect)

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