Tootfinder

Something I do when reading to my kids that I hope helps a bit with all of the patriarchy in children's literature is to randomize the genders of the characters, including the occasional non-binary options and various neopronouns, and sometimes swapping mid-story (especially when there's a metamorphosis, like in "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"). There are so many things that are asymmetrically distributed between genders in books for babies and children, but if you randomize the genders, you can blunt that (I hope).
#parenting #patriarchy #gender

There are these discussions about whether gender/sex is binary or not. Well, one can certainly implement it binary (e.g. in a questionnaire):
Sex: [Yes]/[No]
And we will all agree this is not nuanced enough and people will ask: what do you count as sex?
#gender #sex

Toward Simp Liberation?
#politics

If you're genderfluid how frequently does your gender, or more specifically your pronouns, change on average?
(pls elaborate in the comments!!)
If you have static pronouns but gender that changes, do you not feel uncomfortable with the set of pronouns that is not matching your current gender? Or do you use neutral pronouns? Or do you usually fluid to a demigender or bigender like state? Or is your experience something else entirely?
#poll #genderfluid #gender
More than once a day
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Rarely
My pronouns are completely static, but my gender changes daily
Static pronouns but weekly or monthly gender changes
My gender and pronouns rarely change

Enjoyed Ash Bentley's comments on #GenderIndoctrination in her latest video. Apparently there's some cookbook for cakes that was very popular in anglophone countries on the nineties.
Of course, the sewing machine cake was for girls. As was the stove cake 🥲
Growing up in that era, I remember these differences still being heavily engrained in society. As a kid, I was once at a fair in which I could pick a prize after winning some game, and I actually wanted the Barbie knock-off doll. That would pair nicely with the Action Man dolls I had at home. But my mom, standing next to me, told me no—I'd be better off picking that toy car. When we were walking back to our bikes, she told me she was afraid of running into some classmates of mine, who would probably have bullied me for walking around with a Barbie. That became one of my core memories, looking back 🤔
No shade on my mom, of course. She was trying to look out for me. (Though the "tough boys don't cry" admonishion whenever I cried also left some marks. I was well into my thirties before I could sort-of cry in front of others again.)
#cooking #Sewing #AshBentley #gender #crying