It means I don't personally subscribe to those rules because gender is not innate, though I understand there are people who do feel they have an internal gender. It's important to say so at this moment because there is a very loud narrative that everyone has an innate gender
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Whether you are read as a woman or man actually depends v much on what you wear. I've been asked, when walking through Soho if I was "interested in a girl Sir?" I've been hit on by older gay men calling me a "nice young man". Has this happened to you in jeans & a boxy tee shirt?
No it hasn't (at least since puberty I've not been mistaken for a boy). But presumably it would happen to a man wearing the same outfit. So how can it be clothes that are what mark me out as female?
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Why don't you try cutting your hair short & dressing in neutral clothing & see if in a queue one morning or getting on the bus you ever get misread & called Sir. Many women tell me that non compliance with femininity means ppl are often unsure of them or pronouns.
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Thanks. I've had long hair & short hair and I generally live in jeans and a hoodie when not at work. I used to get called "sonny" etc as a preteen, but never since puberty. Conversely my two teenage sons have similar hair to me, also live in jeans & hoodie, never get called miss
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Gender is a system to make sex rank unequivocal & obvious. Many on this thread are saying femininity is a straitjacket women are forced to wear. Clothing does mark ppl as female, the sound of high heels, long hair, as Feminists have argued these are signs, & targets.
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for almost all women almost all of the time it is obvious, that they are female, and gendered expectations that they are lesser are imposed on them because of this. Its not BECAUSE of what they are wearing.
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