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Women who change their name on marriage do not get asked their "real name". One's mother's maiden name is presumed to be secret enough that it's reasonable to use it as a security check - but it's also utterly innocuous, and typically public knowledge of a woman's maiden name will not cause her any harm.

Compare and contrast: the experiences of trans people.

I appear to get on much better with derivative works of the Sherlock Holmes canon than I ever have with the actual, er, canon. So. There's a thing.

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( Languages. )

We've all got secrets that we hold inside
The worst little things that we never confide
The worst one of all that you never can hide
Is that you're never quite as strong as you sound

-- Frank Turner, If Ever I Stray

i smoke and i drink and
every time i blink i have a tiny dream
but as bad as i am, i'm proud of the fact
that i'm worse than i seem

-- Ani DiFranco, Grey

there's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in a crooked line
and the less I seek my source for some definitive
the closer I am to fine

-- Indigo Girls, Closer to Fine

(because the first came up on shuffle; because I quoted the second at someone recently, and I'm thoughtful about the contrast; because I'm planning a fanvid to the third and thinking about it a lot and it's starting to set up home, as a philosophy, and I think I like that as resolution to the dichotomy of the first two)

CP Snow, in The Two Cultures:

The number 2 is a very dangerous number: that is why the dialectic is a dangerous process. Attempts to divide anything into two ought to be regarded with much suspicion.

(&, yes, the reason I am pulling this out & making a note of it for later is indeed gender.)

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

who only by moving can balance

only by balancing move

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