[quote=@Etcetera]
<Snipped quote by Tank O The Lake>

Mm, I've pontificated enough to talk your ear off at this point. What kind of man [i]are[/i] you, exactly? If man is even the right kind of word.
[/quote]

"Man" is a word you can use.  As is the female counterpart.

*I switch which elbow I'm leaning on.  For a moment, my form flickers, a blurring, crackling haze falling over me.  When it clears, I've taken a female form, a young blonde woman in what appears to be an early 21st-century police officer's uniform.*

I never settled on what face to wear.