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[sythyry]

In the last poll, people seemed about evenly split between calling Sythyry male and calling zir female. Which is pretty cool for me, actually.

Still, if you put zir in a human gender stereotype, why?

Here are some features. I'm probably missing some, so I'll post another quiz at some point if I need to.

All these questions are asking, "I think that Sythyry's [feature] inclines me towards considering zir male / [feature is] irrelevant / female". Insofar as one ever knows why one makes mistakes, of course.

[Poll #1578124]

Comments

[weatherglass.livejournal.com]

I tend to think of Sythyry as female, even when actively reminding myself that zie's not (case in point: I initially typed that as "that she's not", even while discussing this). I don't think this has much to do with how zie's written, honestly; I think it's mostly what I'm bringing to the story, as Sythyry reminds me of bits of myself (female), and bits of various friends who happen to be women. I think you've written zie quite well as gender-neutral.

I debated whether Sythyry's occasionally passive style and introspection were leading me to peg zie as female, but I wound up putting down "irrelevant". I think this isn't quite right--I suppose these are some of the things about zie that remind me of myself--so, probably influencing my subconscious, but for idiosyncratic personal reasons?

The fact that zie's blue, on the other hand, makes me incline strongly towards female. I'm not entirely sure why-- I like blue, but I don't see why that affects my view of Sythyry as strongly as it does.

One other thing--it's been a while since I read back through Sythyry's journal, but all of the characters from there that I remember most strongly are female. I may have initially started thinking of zie as female because of the company? And I can't remember at what point we were introduced to the fact that zie's actually a hermaphrodite--if it was a ways in, I may have first settled on a female gender for her because no gender had been given and I needed a mental default. I find it rather hard to change my impression of these things, once I've gotten a character settled into my mind.