I actually spent most of my 2nd year at university dressed in pink. Not so much because I was deconstructing the binary, or exploring gender fluidity. More because I washed a bright red sweatshirt in with my whites.
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I'd like to announce that I have absolutely no intention of exploring my gender identity & expression in 2019, but if I want wear nails & skirts, and dress head to toe in pink, I will, because these things should have absolutely nothing to do with how we conceptualise gender.
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Right. What's that got to do with anything I said?
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Well, it's a moral claim - there's an Is/Ought gap. As far as I'm concerned, those things should have nothing to do with gender. You are at liberty to disagree, of course.
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So to be clear, your view is that there's an inevitability about the association between "womanhood", and nails, skirts & pink? Yeah, I don't buy it. (Of course, I already know that the conceptions surrounding gender are not entirely arbitrary. That's obvious.)
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And we will applaud your masculinity regardless of what you wear
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Yup. I'm old enough to have hung out with New Romantics when the men had more frills and eye make up than Barbara Cartland!
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The ‘should’ is important here. Many of the gender stereotypes within society flowed with some inevitability from simple physiology. But we are not animals. We can choose how we treat people. And most the time (ie not prison, not competitive sport, etc) it *should* be irrelevant.
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But how is gender conceptualized as biological markers. A desire to share toilets and change rooms with women is disturbingly high on list.
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and if you were really going to explore your gender you would want to be doing womanly things like the housework, the shopping and all the childcare as well as working full time and probably earning less than men The *stuff* that still seems to be women's work
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We women are just naturally gifted at cleaning up after others and putting our own needs after everyone else’s.
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Many women I know ( myself included) have explored our gender identity being sole parents & taking on many of the roles associated with fathers, sole breadwinner, all lawn mowing/hedge trimming, cleaning, cooking, homework, sport, childcare
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Myself included. Earned the dosh , bought the house, paid the bills, kept me and my daughter fed, clothed, educated and entertained. At 70, still a woman though.
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