Plaid Ponderings: Thoughts of a Lezz

I had already chosen it before I learned my sister-in-law was very adamant about wanting gender neutral colors even though she knew it was going to be a boy. His room is done in greens, browns, and yellows. Very cute jungle theme in the room. 

Makes me love her even more.

:D

Well by “forced upon” I mean excessively pushed or advertised through forms of media and other forms of propaganda that you have to have these roles in your relationship to have a functioning one. 

Which to me is total bullshit.

I get pissed when people say, “Oh well he’s obviously doing the woman’s job because he does the cooking and the cleaning in the house.” Since when the fuck is that the only job the woman can have? Since when is picking shit up off the ground and making a meal for your family put you in the “woman” category.

I hate hate hate gender roles.

But like you said. 

I respect your opinion and I guess we can agree to disagree.

It’s fuckery upon fuckery.

I answered the damn question. I don’t believe in fucking gender roles to begin with.

Then anon comes back with “You didn’t answer the question about which gender role you fill.”

OH MY GOD THIS.

Sexism within the LGBTQ community pisses me off to NO end. How the fuck can you tell me that I have to fill my “role” just because of the way I look and our dress.

How about this instead.

How about you don’t believe in a mentality that belongs in the 40’s. How about both of us learn how to fucking cook and both of us learn how to build shit. How about we both treat each others as equals instead of being apart some bullshit society disclaimer that we all have to fit in these stereotypes. 

How about that.

Because what if God forbid, your loved one’s for some unknown reason, arms come in contact with some tragic bacteria fuckery mess. And they have to be amputated. Now the two of you are sitting at home fucking starving because you decided that your girlfriend/partner/wife/significant other filled the “femme” role and it was her job to do the fucking cooking. 

Treat each other equally. Fuck society and its roles. Be merry.

There.

Isn’t that much better?

You are the Gender-Liberal. This means that you share qualities with both Liberal Feminists and Gender Abolitionists. Like the Liberal Feminist, you feel political change needs to be done on a small-scale level through legislative change, not necessarily through a massive destruction of class society through the adoption of an extremist socialist stance. You are also very concerned with sexual liberation, and feel that women should be free to do what they please sexually without criticism, just as men should be free to do. However, you differ from the Liberal Feminist culturally, because you see gender as a social construction that needs to be destroyed. Like the Gender Abolitionist, you realize that gender is often perceived as one’s identity, when it should only be perceived as a small, insignificant part of that person. We shouldn’t be able to say “This person IS a woman”. Rather one should say something more akin to “This person HAS the physical traits of a woman”. This way, we wouldn’t be assuming someone’s physical traits are a part of their identity, and we couldn’t use this difference to oppress them or categorize them. In short, you advocate extreme cultural change through the destruction of gender roles, but politically you are less extreme, instead focusing on individual or legislative change as opposed to a massive change of ideology.

This is pretty much me. 

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