I'm throwing one stone and killing three birds:
1. This, and other gender-related articles will show up here because I need to print them out for class.
2. At the same time, I can use writing these articles as a way to help me sort out my own issues.
3 Other people with questions and/or similar issues can, in time, come here and read; there ain't a lot out there on this end of things y'see.
Ta da!
I feel the need to say this, because, like I said earlier, my years of work building the CPR railway... or was it my time as a Zulu warrior... or the time I was the dowager behind the Medici throne? Anyway, something's gone done inculcated in me the idea that if I show weakness, the wolves will eat me. So this is not here as a sympathy bid (even though the primary function of LJ is to maintain collective bitching in the event of a Soviet Nuclear Strike - "OMG, I hate radioactive fallout too!!! >:P"). I'm here to solve a problem, keep y'all in the loop in a matter that's probably a bit hard to wrap your head around ('cause lord know I'm having a time of it), see if y'all have any input ("you need to eat more zinc"), and provide a resource for others who're wading through the mindfuck.
I'll break down crying when I see you in person.
There. Tough, decisive public face confirmed. Grrrrrr.