Is My Suit Making You Uncomfortable?

Being nonbinary brings out the worst in people

Jay Ludlow Martin
Human Parts

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MyMy dad told me why I don’t have any money the other day. Well, he told me one of the reasons I don’t have any savings and a carload of student loan debt. He said, matter-of-factly, “Well, but you’ve always had a hard time finding a job for a number of reasons.” Then he gesticulated in my direction. I wasn’t wearing anything particularly flamboyant, but still I took his point.

The reasons are numbered as follows:

  1. I have to take off my necktie when I go to the gynecologist.
  2. End of reasons.

I don’t wear a tie in the sexy way that Blake Lively does in A Simple Favor. I wear a tie the way former Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly wears a tie. I wear a tie the way an accountant wears a tie, or your boyfriend wears a tie, or your accountant boyfriend who you wish would just propose already wears a tie.

This sublist may also help.

People and things I’ve been told I resemble:

  • The color grey
  • A tree
  • Shaun White
  • A 14-year-old boy
  • A bird
  • Jojen Reed from Game of Thrones
  • The little boy from…

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