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The closest I've seen to traditional religious gender roles outside of that world is drag queen culture, weirdly? I don't mind it - i don't care if you're a drag queen or a housewife - just I wonder if this is evidence for the persistent allure of strong behavioral categories.

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How are they similar?

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Hard to pinpoint - body language, tone, subtle framing? I was watching a drag tv show and tried to imagine all the characters as actually women just being portrayed as women and it got offensive - references to fashion and beauty shoehorned into places where they weren't-

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relevant, hyper-feminine body language used subtly to enhance 'female' identity to a point of caricature, reminded me of 1950's housewife style how "female" was presented as "core identity to all things"

6:06 PM · Apr 6, 2020