I think I broke my gender.
@Soreth And mind you I'm in the women's bathroom at work while this musing is happening, and it's not like I haven't gone out of my way to adopt a very matronly figure and presentation, but for some reason I just found this association... off.
And then I asked myself how I'd feel about a queer affinity group. Same basic idea but aligned for LGBTQ+ folks explicitly. And I felt right at home with that idea, kind warm and fuzzy.
So I've at least warped the gender housing.
@literorrery Gender is hard, let's go be weird.
@Soreth I was sitting in the bathroom at work reading about something the women' affiliate group -- "Women at $Company" had done, and I saw myself in a picture for the group, and my brain immediately started stuffing quotation marks of separation around "women" like insulation material. And I started asking myself, "hunh, why am I pushing against this? Am I uncomfortable here? Am I not a women? Am I allowed to ask who is a women? What besides a beautiful pile of mysteries is a women?"