If we fancy operating a blast furnace
More cheerfully, JKR is on fire today.
Then a compact little essay:
Gender identity “is a core part of who we know ourselves to be”. It can be “fixed or fluctuate”, absent or neutral. There is no explanation of how we’re supposed to identify our core as male, female or both, though the books’ photographs suggest that if we feel like beauty pageant winners we’ve got lady feels, and if we fancy operating a blast furnace, we have an inner bloke. I particularly enjoyed the advice to those who haven’t got the attention span to read the entire, very short book: “if you only have half an hour to spare, just read the paragraphs set in the two largest font sizes and you’ll still get a basic overview of the subject.”
Insert flames emoji here.
Sorry Hulk, “Strongest Avenger” title goes to JKR…
And those of us who don’t feel like beauty queens, and have no interest in operating blast furnaces? I guess that makes us non-binary.
Which, hey! I’m one of the oppressed! Hey, everyone, look at me over here being oppressed! Pay attention, send me money, publish my book, give me prizes!
You triggered my inner comic book nerd there, starskeptic. I had to fight not to, “Um, actually,” push up my glasses, and go on a rant about power scaling and other nonsense.
I know Nullius, “strongest avenger” was merely Banner’s password to log into the Quinjet’s computer.
But one has to start somewhere…
I have had a lifelong yearning to operate a blast furnace while dressed as a beauty queen. A yearning which has been cruelly unrequited due to colonialist and essentialist exclusion on the basis not only of sex, but “lack of training and experience” and “safety” and plain old “are you fucking crazy or something?”.
Be sure to leave your feather boa at home, and cut down the amount of product you use in your hair.
There probably is some guy who wants to ladle steel in a prom dress. There probably is or will be soon a man who demands this.
But they do tell on themselves. We always said gender is a social construct to mean gender is socially, and sometimes legally, enforced norms and not a property of human beings. Gender could be overcome if we just stopped enforcing it so much. But these supposed “leftists” have broadened the once conservative position that nonconformity must be punished by breaking the body.
There is certainly a high school shop teacher who wants to operate woodworking or metalworking machinery while wearing enormous fake breasts, a skirt, and a wig. A real example disturbingly close to this hypothetical.
Kayla Lemieux.
A K.A. Titzilla.
I cannot resist sharing another gem, this one in response to the rhetorical question, “You’re actually radicalized past the point of salvation, aren’t you?”
Hahahahahaha
Gender identity is a core part of who we know ourselves to be, but It can also be absent or neutral. K.