[ SECRET POST #257 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #257 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 074 secrets from Secret Submission Post #037.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom, [ 1 2 ] repeats.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Thursday, September 20th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
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Comments

[iamadoughnut.livejournal.com]

For one, there's not actually a need to pathologize this with "disorders."

just because she is referred to as a he does not mean that's what she is.

Except that, from where I'm sitting (as a complete outsider who doesn't honestly give a damn either way), Sheik reads like a different persona. A male one. Regardless of what's underneath, the "role" of Sheik would be male. If she slipped back into being Zelda, sure, she's a she. If someone was writing from her point of view as Zelda-playing-Sheik, then sure... use "she" if you like. If writing about just Sheik, well, why not use "he"?

In what situation would you really have to refer to sex rather than gender? If it's a question of superficially and socially being taken for male, where does sex come into play?

[el-hustino.livejournal.com]

The character of Sheik is female. Sheik is not a different persona in any sense, just the name taken by a character (Zelda) pretending to be male in an attempt to hide during a time where, if her identity were known, she would be imprisoned and, most likely, eventually killed. They aren't alternate personalities or anything of the like. Sheik is Zelda, just with different clothes that she wears due to being in a bad situation. No other reason.

Also, sex is the physiological characteristics of male and female, meaning the body parts in one's pants.

Gender is the vaguer concept of self-identity, social roles, and the like.