People frequently call me "Ma'am" on the phone, so often I don't even blink anymore. It's not even uncommon for them to say it while conversing in the same room. My voice must sound female outside my head. I do know that my verbal inflections are like my Mom's.

There's more to it than this. Men open doors for me, sometimes looking a bit startled or mildly puzzled as I walk through. This despite me having thinned hair on top and a mustache! Maybe my walk and my "energy" are feminine. I do not know. Heaven knows what they think when they see my sunflower tattoo in the men's locker room at the gym. Hoo-hah!

Anyway, my sexual experience is definitely male, as is my love of cars, gadgets, and metal music. Yet in some ways I'm more comfortable with the company of women than men. I have decided that I am androgynous.

From Merriam-Webster:
 an·drog·y·nous 

Pronunciation:

\an-ˈdrä-jə-nəs\

Function:

adjective

Etymology:

Latin androgynus hermaphrodite, from Greek androgynos, from andr- + gynē woman

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Chocolate has multiple health benefits, eat it!

Partially hydrogenated oils inflame the walls of arteries, eliminate good HDL cholesterol from your system, increase levels of LDL bad cholesterol, and clog your blood vessels like fats do (because they ARE fat!).

Also called trans-fatty acids or trans-fats, they are used in nearly every crunchy snack, most brands of peanut butter, butter substitutes, Girl Scout cookies, and almost any processed food labeled "low fat" or "fat free". They are made by adding a hydrogen atom to the molecule of whichever oil is being "partially hydrogenated", which allows food manufacturers to legally (but not truthfully)say it is something other than a fat. It is thus cheap to make "fat-free" food products that sell like hotcakes to unsuspecting consumers. Check the ingredient label on those prepackaged hotcakes!

When you start checking, you'll find these toxic substances in bread, crackers, soups, TV dinners, ice cream, frozen pizzas, cheese, coffee creamer...like I said, in ALL KINDS of processed foods. (See picture below for products containing trans-fats. See the first comment for link to anti-transfat webpage.)

What will the Bush administration do about these substances in our food? Prediction: If, and only if, there is a huge public outcry, will they swing into action! A bill will be passed (the "Safe Foods Act") or a regulatory rewrite will be made (circumventing congressional participation) that will permit food manufacturers to trade trans-fat reduction credits between extreme offenders and those less extreme. The net effect will be a small increase in trans-fat content overall, which will be presented via massaged statistics as a major reduction.

Don't eat this stuff, it'll shorten your life to consume it regularly!