I feel comfortable around men and women for the first time because they look at me now the way I somehow have always needed them to look at me. They treat me the way I have been needing to be treated, and so I am comfortable in their company. This is a great revelation because I was never aware before becoming PattiMichelle that this was my trouble with relating to people. It also shows that there is a difference between Gender Role and Sexual Role because I am not inclined to be sexual with any men, but I am inclined to take a feminine gendered role when I interact with men. We have left the trees and caves and inserted ourselves underwater, into space, and into cyberspace - we have the right to change our bodies, too.
All humans are individuals who weave together and thereby accomplish.
We make ourselves who and what we are - this is the great gift of being human. This is to what our culture aspires in its highest processes, is our greatest gift of Free Will, and is the ultimate source of the individual contributions that relentlessly piece themselves together to form the fabric of the future. And my part in this process is good. Human history, Civil Rights, and Freedom are the gradual recognition of that fact - that we are what we define ourselves to be, not what others would define us to be. The truth is Who and What we are is everywhere and nowhere, meaning we carry it within us like a seed, and it grows, often slowly and painfully, when watered, throughout our lifetimes until we lay our lives down and bid others water the trees we have planted when we are gone.