Email I received at Intersex Initiative.
id love to meet a reallllllllllll hermorphadite in person. my email is *****@hotmail.com in *****.
The first “*****” is part of an email address; the latter is a name of a City.
I get these emails at least once a week. ISNA must receive it every day, if not every hour. I usually just ignore, but today, after an upsetting episode at Wal-Mart which they sucked me into with its $4/month prescription generic medication, I found some energy to respond. Here goes:
Hello sir–Too bad. I just called the World Council of Realllll Hermorphadite and had them add your name, email address, home address and social security number into The Blacklist so that no reallllll hermorphadite would fall prey to someone like you.
Just to clarify: I’m not against fetishes or fetishists. I’m against someone insensitive enough to send such email to an organisation that is trying to change the society so that intersex people would be treated as people, not just some object of others’ fantasy or being reduced to just the sex organs.
Never ends does it? Even when I walk in for my $4 dollar meds I am outed and often given the double take. Then to add on top of that the creeps that may follow one through the store or parking lot, an email of this sort is too much!
Comment by stellewriter — March 1, 2008 @ 9:27 am
It never ends dose it.I guess some people think they can get their kicks though us though that will never happen.
Comment by Nick Chaleunphone — November 29, 2008 @ 11:18 pm
“I’m not against fetishes or fetishists. I’m against someone insensitive enough to send such email to an organisation that is trying to change the society so that intersex people would be treated as people, not just some object of others’ fantasy or being reduced to just the sex organs.”
Is it like being fine with heterosexual men, but not when they whistle and comment on a passing woman’s body?
Comment by Ettina — January 19, 2009 @ 4:56 pm