Boxes are a comfortable shape.

Who are we kidding? We want to be in a box. We dont want to be floating around without a name, we want to be categorized. Even the kids that walk around bare foot, ripped and dirty t-shirt want to be boxed. The kids that walk around in the plainest clothes, head down want to be boxed. Weather we are categorized as "out there" or "part of the norm" is not up to us thought, it is up to the people that view us. When it comes to gender we have two boxes in our minds, male and female. One girl in class stated that even when we do not say that person is a "boy" or that person is a "girl" we still say that a person is a girly-girl or just a girl and we say that a boy is a manly-man. The place that I am trying to go with this is discussing one of the very interesting points that Andy brought up in his part of the presentation. During his presentation Andie said something that made me think about what it meant to be trans gender differently. We were talking about acceptance when Andie stated that he did not want to come out of the closet when he came out as a girl, his end goal as with other trans gender people is not be put into the correct box. This statement made me realize that trans gender people want to be seen as "normally" the other gender. They are not really fighting against boxes but rather they are fighting to be accepted in a a box.