And even if I did have the breadth of knowledge required for such an undertaking, it seemed there was no safe way to broach all those subjects in the week's worth of time I had to write this column because I had to have a three-hour long conversation with my girlfriend about the most comprehensive language to use as an ally while still being intelligible to the general public just to type the first sentence of this paragraph; and now neither of us knows if sex or race is really real, but we still know what sex and race we identify as and I am immensely confused. But she says that's a good thing.