Self-identification

An Emily Flake cartoon in the August 3rd New Yorker:

There reference here is to people with transgender self-identification, though in fact pluots are biological hybrids, parallel to intersex people. There might also be an allusion to white people who self-identify as black (posting on this blog here).

One Response to “Self-identification”

  1. arnold zwicky Says:

    Discussion of the various hybrids here:
    http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/08/07/portmanteau-prunus/

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