![]() In fact, if there’s one thing that every person in this room should be able to agree on, it’s that gender is a confusing and complicated mess. In reality gender is all of these things and more. It is a crass oversimplification that is as ridiculous as saying all gender is genitals, all gender is chromosomes, or all gender is socialization. ![]() What’s most annoying about that sound-bite is how it is often recited in a somewhat snooty “I-took-a-gender-studies-class-and-you-didn’t” sort of way, which is ironic given the way that phrase dumbs down gender. If one more person tells me that “all gender is performance” I think I am going to strangle them. It was reprinted in Julia Serano’s book Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Communities More Inclusive which everyone should buy, damn it. ![]() This is part of the Gay Utopia project, originally published in 2007. ![]()
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