March Memeness: gender

gingicat asked Any thoughts about gender?

I'm kind of in the camp of "gender is what you make of it". The problem is that gender is also often what our society and the people in it make of you as you perform gender. And in some parts of the world one's safety is wrapped up in how well (or perhaps how normatively) you fit into typical gender brackets.

( long and probably not very clear )

So, uh, yeah. Just a few thoughts.