You're lost in a liberal arts college and come upon a fork in the road. One path leads to the Wymyns's Studyes Departmynt, a feminist safe space; the other leads to Greek housing, infested with frat bros who major in the STEM sciences. You don't know which path is which, but, fortunately, there are two campus tour guides at the intersection, one man and one womyn. One gender always tells the truth, and one gender always lies (this is not a stipulation of the riddle, but you know it in your heart to be true). The Q&A session of the tour only has time allotted for one question per person. Who do you ask for directions, the [[wymyn,| Wymyn]] or the [[PATRIARCH!!?!?|PATRIARCHY!!!]]The naive answer is to ask the womyn, as your female elders have taught you since childhood, but this is incorrect. Your transphobic relatives have equated biological sex with gender. For all you know, the female presenting tour guide identifies as gendervoid, and the male presenting tour guide could be a demigirl! You'll need a new strategy. You turn to the female presenting guide and ask the cleverly worded question "If the other tour guide were to direct me to the frat houses, which road would xe point me toward?" knowing that this question will elicit the directions to the Safe Space, regardless of which tour guide actually identifies as female. Alas, your masculine deploymynt of logic leaves the proud, independent tour guide unfazed. Xe turns to face you, and your heart sinks as xe mutters, "It's not my job to educate you, shitlord." THE END. [[Start Again,|Beginning]] OR... help me write the rest of this story! PM me at /u/icomputertinker or just reply to my comment or thread.You turn to the male tour guide and relax your demeanor. You don't need to worry about offending his headmates or counting his kintypes. You calmly ask, "Which way to the Frat Houses?" You question elicits a sneer from the female(?) tour guide, but she remains silent, for now. The man replies, "The Frat Houses are to the left, there you will also find the library and computer labs. The Wymyn's Studyes Departmynt," he emphasizes each 'y', "felt triggered being so close to opposing opinion." Now the female(?) tour guide speaks up. "Um, EXCUSE ME? How DARE yu o!! OBVIOUSLY it's the MALES fault!!! They used their PATRIARCHY POINTS to GET THE LAB ALL TO THEMSELVES!!" The male tour guide sighs and says to the female(?) tour guide "Would you like the Wymyn's Studyes Departmynt relocated?" "Um, NO! The library has TOO MANY WHITE PROTAGONIST NOVELS!!" The male tour guide looks to you and shrugs. You give back an apologetic look. You thank your tour guide and [[continue down the left hallway towards sanity.|Sanity]]I need you guys to help me write this! PM me at /u/icomputertinker or just reply to my comment.\ or thread. For now, if you'd like, you can [[return to the beginning.|Beginning]]