In today’s PostSecret:
[translation] Every time I perfectly back into a parking space, I think of my ex-boyfriend and the following words form in my head, “stupid mansplaining idiot”.
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I can’t parallel park worth a damn.
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I actually LOL’ed at that!
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It’s a thing is Michigan, too. It’s very Scarlet Letter isn’t it?
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Gives me a SATC flashback…
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Yuck. Those clips remind me of when I was house shopping and the realtor would often look at me with a certain gleam in her eye and point out that a certain room, “would be just perfect for a nursery.”
Happy to say that in the house I did buy, I turned the perfect nursery into a walk in closet. And it’s just perfect.
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We live in an imperfect world. And yet…
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I got married in the mid 1990s and they asked us our race. In effing Virginia. I was furious.
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Whenever I fill out forms and there’s a section that specifically asks about race, I always write in “WHY?” as my answer.
I’ve never had anyone challenge me for it, thus far.
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My first mortgage said “spinster”. The equivalent for a man was “bachelor”. Legally required.
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I often mark all of the check boxes available.
If there’s room and I have time, I will make a box, write “other” next to it, and check that one.
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When I asked the clerk in Virginia why I should have to fill that in, she said “because you have to. If you don’t answer the question about race, you aren’t getting a marriage license.” My fiance was less-than-pleased with me and so I answered the question. The clerk, who was Black, told me she was well aware of why that question was on there, and she didn’t like it either. But rules is rules.
25 years later, they removed the question:
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My father always writes in “human” and never gets any follow-up questions. With the GOP/GQP having fits about trying to define “woman,” I don’t want to see them getting the power to add really invasive questions to government or healthcare forms. 
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It’s not like they really need to ask-they can buy most of that data quite cheaply, after all.
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True. Though for people like me who search for records as part of genealogy research, free sources are preferable. 
Data on race, gender, and age is useful in figuring out details about the lives of our ancestors. Something not mentioned in the examples above is the inclusion of parents’ names and places of birth on marriage licenses. Knowing a woman’s maiden name and places of residence can make a huge difference when searching for property and health records. It seems that terms like “spinster” are taking a long time to go away…
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