Monday, May 10

The layers of gender

Which "layer" coaxed and coaxes YOU most to be womanly, manly? and straight.
Which "layer" coaxes YOU most today to undo the above coaxing? and straight.
  • Self - sense of self
  • Partner - S.O. or mate
  • Friends - your buddies, clique.  Which friends do you choose?  those who are very M or F or who are very mixed and open?
  • Family - your mom, dad, and sibs
  • Neighborhood - just the "feeling" of those around you "on the street"
  • Work - are you "caught" in a gendered job or in a anti-gender role at work
  • School - do your teachers "get" you to be M F or straight - or to let it go
  • City - does Los Angeles 'liberate' you or trap you?
  • some experience - prison, army, the nunnery, parenting, abuse, love - does it coax u?
  • CA - does the state "do" something to you to make you M or F or straight or gay
  • USA - how does the federal government impose gender and straightness upon you 

3 comments:

  1. Partner, friends, family and work seem to be the ones which force me most into a model of a gender. the other layers seem to allow me to identify myself how I wish to be identifed as percieved from my point of view

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  2. good. now you know where to target your change.

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