Mon Sep 02, 2013 at 01:31 PM PDT
Geronimo - or how sex and gender got in the way
by bluesheep
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/02/1235359/-Geronimo-or-how-sex-and-gender-got-in-the-wayI'm posting this diary in response to a comment from a valued fellow kossack a while back. His comment touched me in a way that I couldn't answer without a fair bit of reflection and searching for words. In the end the only way I feel I can respond is by sharing an encounter I once had. It doesn't directly answer the comment, I just hope that this window into my genderqueer experience might enlighten our exploration of gender, sex and sexuality.
I still wonder why that disconnect with your body took place. It doesn't seem to me that that sort of thing should be able to happen if we weren't handed our gender roles like little pink or blue hats before we even take our first breaths.
Our broken society doesn't make enough little yellow hats and it makes far too many assumptions about how people should act and think based on superficial fluff like genitalia. You and I and every one of us were subjected to the indoctrination of gender role stereotypes from countless sources all our lives. And when the truth of who we are inside doesn't match what we appear to be on the outside then all the gender role garbage strapped to our genitalia can become too much of a burden.
