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Gender trend analysis
When I started commenting on whether I was having a "girl day" or a "boy day" - it seems like yesterday, but it was actually nearly a month ago - I mentioned that there were some holes in the formula. Later I noted that I really needed something like a sliding scale or Genderometer.
Well, I've learned a few things this month. My gender assessment ties directly into the amount of fussing I do over my appearance. Sounds simple, doesn't it?
It's not.
If I am having a Type 1 day, it means I don't give a damn about my appearance. A dead giveaway that I'm having a day like this is if I leave the house with my hair tied back, which I believe makes me look like a hacker or a thug, neither of which I associate with beauty. It may even mean I wear my glasses out of the house, but that's less common. The point is, I don't really care. These are usually days when I'm absorbed in work, or too sick or tired to care.
A Type 2 day means that I haven't gone to great pains with my appearance, but it says nothing about my mental state. Maybe I'm unhappy because I'm not doing more with it, or maybe I just did as much as I wanted and am okay with it.
A Type 3 day is one where I've fussed with my appearance and am generally pretty okay with it, but I am much more aware of how I look than the category above. That is, I think about it more often. A day when I make the statement, "I felt pretty girly today, and if I had bothered to shave, I probably would have looked really cute," is likely to fall in this category.
Type 4: Danger. Danger.
If you did a graph with my mental happiness on the X axis - positive values are blissful, negative values stressful - and my "girliness" as increasing values on the Y axis, it would look like a letter V.
Just as, in atomic conditions we have matter and anti-matter, as each positive subparticle has its negative twin, so my mental state on a day in this category could be of either nature: I am either supremely blissed because I feel I have achieved as girly a state as I can with my humble physical resources, or I am extremely agitated over a girliness standard I want very badly that day.
Contrast this to the first and most boylike of these four states, which is located at 0,0 on our graph. There, I don't look especially attractive (in my opinion), but I don't worry about it either. I should probably try to achieve that state more often and just go for peaceful unawareness.
Instead I try to reach state number four as often as I can.
I never said I was noted for good sense.
At any rate, I didn't want to work on the game tonight, and I probably should be answering email or writing, but I was exhausted so I began the Simplified Gender Tracking Chart instead. I'll probably be referring back to it at frequent intervals, so consider yourself warned.
© Columbine
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