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diff --git a/microblog/index.html b/microblog/index.html index 2a8a139..15edc53 100644 --- a/microblog/index.html +++ b/microblog/index.html @@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ Looking back, reading opinions, journal entries and poems I wrote a while back, <p id="11"> I think my experience of gender dysphoria has became inconsistent in what I actually think about gender. My belief, in theory, is that gender should be eradicated (see "Postgenderism") altogether, as it's an unnecessary construct that limits people, imposes cisnormativity, etc. <br /> - I try to think along the terms of "gender doesn't matter, at all". But my experience says otherwise: I found myself, perhaps "strangely", more comfortable with she/her pronouns than with they/them. So when interacting with people online, who don't know me IRL, I just declare she/her pronouns and… well, it's a glaring inconsistency in my theory of gender and society and INCONCISTENCIES BUG ME. I started feeling like a hypocrite. + I try to think along the terms of "gender doesn't matter, at all". But my experience says otherwise: I found myself, perhaps "strangely", more comfortable with she/her pronouns than with they/them. So when interacting with people online, who don't know me IRL, I just declare she/her pronouns and… well, it's a glaring inconsistency in my theory of gender and society and INCONSISTENCIES BUG ME. I started feeling like a hypocrite. <br /> If gender really doesn't matter to me, why do I have gender dysphoria??. <br /> @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ Looking back, reading opinions, journal entries and poems I wrote a while back, <p id="7"> Reading <i>雷雨</i> and thinking about <i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i> and <i>The Glass Menagerie</i> There's a commonality in these plays—and perhaps many more—that struck me: The presentation of femininity as dependence. <br /> - I've always tried to fight against such interpretations as I found them to be, perhaps a bit sexist. Yet looking at my own manifestation of femininity, I find shocking ressemblence with my dependence on peopole (and occasionally also abstract entities like knowledge). + I've always tried to fight against such interpretations as I found them to be, perhaps a bit sexist. Yet looking at my own manifestation of femininity, I find shocking resemblance with my dependence on peopole (and occasionally also abstract entities like knowledge). <br /> Perhaps it depends on what we mean by the word "femininity". Is it the quality of being female? Or is it the behavioral norms traditionally associated with the female gender? <br /> |