If anyone’s wondering who Jesse Bering is and why he’s related to that quote from yesterday:
A few years ago I was listening to Science for the People (as I used to do), and they had an interview with Jesse Bering about his then-recent book Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us. He was going on about how men’s sexualities are narrow and stable while women’s sexualities are broad and fluid, a spectrum with exclusive paraphiles at one end and @sinesalvatorem at the other.
And this felt really familiar, and at first I wasn’t sure why. And then I realised:
This was not the first time that I had been accused of having an extreme male brain.
I should start compiling a list of times I’m used as an example of an extreme version of a feminine mental trait, since it’s strangely frequent and cool.
I thought you might appreciate that. :)
Didn’t know it was strangely frequent, though.
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#and it’s interesting in a different way when *I* make a good example of a *masculine* trait #I used to know some people who would often point out #that any test of Real Womanhood *intended* to exclude trans women inevitably ends up excluding some cis women too #there are no places where you can draw a neat line #off the top of my head I can think of four Real Womanhood tests that I fail #(I’m autistic and paraphilic and non-dysmenorrheic and I never get catcalled) #((that last one especially feels like tempting fate to say it out loud)) #((but if I start getting catcalled tonight my past selves will still have been women)) #((so the point would remain)) #tag rambles #reply via reblog #gender
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