This is more of a personal tidbit than it is anything else, but lately I was thinking about the idea of everyone having a "masculine side" and a "feminine side", and I can't say that I relate to it at all. I think the idea works significantly better for people who repress the gendered elements of themselves that they view as improper, so for them their "[gender] sides" really have become discrete parts of them. But there is no divide within me between the traits of me that people call "feminine" and the traits of me that people call "masculine". They have always been united. Other people just insisted that they were part of two completely separate boxes, and that I am supposed to believe that my liking pink is diametrically opposed to my liking three-piece suits. It's bizarre when you think about it. I don't believe in enforcing the gender binary on others, so why would I enforce the gender binary within myself?
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