Re: Gender?
Call me a stick in the mud sometimes. I am always for a distinction of what you are versus what you were. I believe that as an Angel, Terro is male. I was born male, so there's no complication there. Now if Terro was androgynous, I would still be male right now, I have male hormones, male genitalia, male body, male hard wired brain (however different that is from the female or transgendered... you guys debate, I'll keep it simple). If Terro is male and I was born female, that would make me female. No matter what the soul is, it is me who is doing the typing, and that is the soul through a filter that is the body, which means that since the body is male, the perspective, the pronoun, the being is male.
Thusly why you might see me clashing with people who demand to be referred to as "Xer" or some other odd pronoun. I am fine with those who don't wish to disclose gender, or those who don't think it's a big deal, but the ones who scream out over the internet "I'm not a guy I just have a penis," I just have to say in reply, "that makes you a guy, possibly a gender confused guy, but still a guy."
In many ways I also see it as one step short of angrily stating that you are not a Human, you're a Demon Lord of the fourth pit because you believe that's what your soul is. You are who you were born as. If you don't like it... average lifespan is what, 74 years?
With organic beings, gender comes in terms of reproduction, with spiritual beings it usually comes in the form or energy, and many will understand a male, a female or a gender neutral energy when they feel it. I just keep the spiritual identification separate from the physical identification.
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-The Unit
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