A brief pointless post about gender

[sorcyress]

I think realizing (and becoming comfortable with the fact that) I'm genderqueer has made it a lot easier for me to be traditionally feminine.

Like, I'm a lot more willing to be excited about cute bras and awesome high heels and the wearing thereof, since it's all just a different kind of drag.

Comments

[grail76]

Great.
A lot of everything is finding how you want to express yourself.

[eftychia]

I think I have to disagree with the title of this entry. (But I'll grant you "brief" and "about gender".)

[woozle]

I've often imagined that I might find the same thing -- as an occasional thing, almost as a joke (or "with quote marks around it", as Tigger once said), not as a general preference -- if given the opportunity to be cisgendered. (Maybe you're being cisgendered when you're in female mode? I don't know, and I'm not trying to say anything for or against your observation except "this makes intuitive sense to me".)

[notyourwendy]

Off topic, but saw this and thought of you: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/pimp-your-bike-crocheted-skirt-guards-fahrradnetz-jasbeschermer

[mogwit.livejournal.com]

You hit the nail on the head.

A corollary: "Honey, you're born naked. Everything else is drag." - RuPaul

[malakhgabriel.livejournal.com]

I recently thought something similar about me and traditional masculinity. I've been fixing cars and building things, things I thought were off limits to "guys like me" for so long. Once I took the "guys" out of the equation I realized I can do that shit too if I want to! It's neat.

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

I definitely think of it as drag when I wear femme stuff. Not that femme stuff I wear is even _that_ femme.