Quote Originally Posted by Hope View Post
I personally have found the popular use of both the first and the third person to refer to oneself here to be a bit disconcerting. "I like to go and buy clothes for Julie" As if Julie were a completely separate person.

Little or no sense of self, perhaps?

I have yet to meet a tomboy type who gives herself a "butch" name. Even among the butchest dykes I've ever met. They might use a nickname -- i.e. Samantha gets shortened to Sam -- but nothing approaching the level of personality-splitting that goes on here.

I think it's the refusal, or the inability, to integrate one's self into a whole.

I did try, before I signed up here, to come up with another name for myself. A nod to convention, I suppose. But nothing appealed to me, and the reason has become clear. There isn't anyone else inside my head -- it's just me.

And Zarbu.