{"id":727,"date":"2012-05-27T20:55:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T20:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=727"},"modified":"2012-05-28T01:55:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T01:55:42","slug":"manning-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=727","title":{"rendered":"manning up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My best man story of this year, so far, although I think I already made that claim back in March, but I called it my best <a href=\"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?cat=29\">sir story<\/a>. \u00a0The stories just keep getting better I guess.<\/p>\n<p>When I travel through airports, I consistently get mistaken for a being a dude. And not just in Indy or Portland. It&#8217;s nearly everywhere I&#8217;ve flown through or to: SF, LA, La Guardia, Denver, Atlanta, O&#8217;Hare, etc. \u00a0And even though it can be stressful because of TSA, I generally like getting my masculinity affirmed by being called sir and I also appreciate the tacit recognition that the gender binary is just not working for me. Yesterday when I was flying back to Portland from Indy and I went through the security xray machine thing, the TSA lady looking at my scan waved me over to a TSA guy, saying to him about me, &#8220;This man has something on his chest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At first, I wanted to say &#8220;breasts&#8221; but then I thought that might confuse everyone, so instead, before the TSA guy could start feeling me up I said to both the TSA lady and the TSA guy, &#8220;That&#8217;s because I&#8217;m not a man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The TSA guy looked kind of relieved and the TSA lady apologized, kind of brusquely and then sent me through the machine again. I assume everyone correctly identified the things on my chest because I was waved through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My best man story of this year, so far, although I think I already made that claim back in March, but I called it my best sir story. \u00a0The stories just keep getting better I guess. When I travel through airports, I consistently get mistaken for a being a dude. And not just in Indy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}