http://breakinglight11.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] breakinglight11.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] breakinglight11 2011-08-26 01:31 pm (UTC)

Kind of the point I want to make is that people are allowed to pick and choose what sort of behaviors feel right to them, and that can be incorporated into whatever view you have of your gender identity. That can be who you naturally are but not have to conform to every idea society has about that in order to be so (like, for example, being a ciswoman who feels feminine but acts as the pursuer in the romantic relationship). I think that point would be most effectively made by having the traditionally opposite behavior exhibited by otherwise normative examples of the gender. If, say, a butch woman did it, it would be too easy to say, "Well, butch women act like men, so she's still acting as a normative example of her gender identity." I would want to explore that one can incorporate things that are not traditional for your gender identity without compromising the truth of it.

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