Perhaps I misunderstand your meaning behind the phrase, "default interactions," however you don't strike me as the type of person who'd bother with typical social formalities...
To start fresh in a quite literal sense would require going somewhere with no social parameters - at all - pre-defined. i.e. Another planet? Cultural standards exist everywhere you go no matter what you do. Even mere dialect becomes so ingrained frequently that some have difficulty helping it.
Partially out of respect, and partially because I believe in similar ideals as you in regards to gender neutrality - I've personally made attempts over the past months to negate sexual identifiers from my vocabulary in conversation with you - i.e. such as I might say, "Hey man". Though this might be something I might say to my own WIFE much less any other female - the point still stands - it's difficult...
I've just sorta came to the point of deciding, "I can't change the world around me - but they can't change what's inside of me, either..."
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To start fresh in a quite literal sense would require going somewhere with no social parameters - at all - pre-defined. i.e. Another planet? Cultural standards exist everywhere you go no matter what you do. Even mere dialect becomes so ingrained frequently that some have difficulty helping it.
Partially out of respect, and partially because I believe in similar ideals as you in regards to gender neutrality - I've personally made attempts over the past months to negate sexual identifiers from my vocabulary in conversation with you - i.e. such as I might say, "Hey man". Though this might be something I might say to my own WIFE much less any other female - the point still stands - it's difficult...
I've just sorta came to the point of deciding, "I can't change the world around me - but they can't change what's inside of me, either..."