heterosexual: door swings one way
homosexual: door swings the other way
bisexual: door swings both ways
pansexual: revolving door
demisexual: door is locked, one person has the key
asexual: door is actually a wall
I'm sorry, but dancing isn't a sport. I've been a lifelong dancer. The truth of it is that dancing is an ATHLETIC art form, much like gymnastics is an ARTISTIC sport. I would much rather be called an artist than an athlete - dancing is about passion and emotion. Is there strong technique, hundreds of extraordinary muscles, and a bodily aesthetic? Yes, but that's all a part of the package.
I definitely believe that both sides (dance IS a sport vs. dance IS NOT a sport) have valid arguments, but I also think that it’s up to each dancer to decide how he or she wants to view his or her self. So if you choose to see yourself as an artist rather than an athlete, I’m not going to fight you. (Though I also think that you’re not giving other sports enough credit. Sure a football game isn’t defined by expressing deep sorrow to the crowd, but if you listen to any professional athlete talk about their sport, you’ll find the same amount of passion from them as from dancers.) Personally, I choose to believe both sides. Dancers are athletes. Dancers are artists. Dancers are performing athletes. That’s what, to me at least, makes dancers so unique. The fact that we work and train as athletes, but we are defined by the visual/performing art aspect of what we do. I don’t think it’s a matter of either/or, as in dancers are either athletes OR artists. I think we’re both.
I’m considering coming out to my family as non-binary, and so today I brought up the subject of non-binary gendering/transgendering with my Dad as a casual conversational topic. He’s told me that if somebody is born a boy then they “should stay a fucking boy” and not trans to a girl or be a boy some days/girl other days/genderless other days.
I told him that I think gender identity should be something one can choose for themselves, and he says that nobody thinks like that and anybody who is trans/non-binary will just be shunned by every member of society they meet. He doesn’t think that people support n-b/t communities, because he doesn’t. He says to me that not staying one’s natural gender is wrong and against the point of being born a boy/girl.
Every person who reblogs this will have their URL written in a full-size writing book and when it is full I will show it to my father to illustrate to him the amount of people who believe that being non-binary is a valid gender identity.