#gender posting

[r4v3nzcr0ws]

is anyone else terrified to admit what their gender is? im scared im gonna walk into a room and say im a transmasc girl and then get publically executed

[nonbinarymlm]

I’m not always a man, but I am always a weird little guy

[dilutedh2so4]

Sappho’s Helen chooses for herself a role that belongs properly to the male warrior. She sails to Troy and leaves behind a house untended. But at the same time, her choice—to pursue what she desires—and the manner in which this choice is expressed undermine the very meaning of the Homeric hero’s code of honor. The paradoxical quality of Helen’s actions comes through strongly in the language of memory, once again. Sappho’s description of Helen’s lack of memory closely mirrors lines of the Iliad that speak to the importance of the warrior’s memory on the battlefield. Nestor at one point urges the Achaeans to “be men” and “remember” (15.662) each his children, wife, property, and parents.

Helen confounds these neat distinctions between domestic and heroic memory by violating the norms of each gender. She makes a parody out of Iliadic forms of remembering kin—the kind of memory valorized by both Nestor and Agenor—because, as a woman, she has no business sailing to Troy and not minding her child and parents. The similarity of Sappho’s phrasing to the Iliadic imperatives serves only to remind us of how the male model of remembering during battle is being perverted for a woman’s (Sappho’s and Helen’s) poetic purposes. In a different way, Helen also violates the Penelopean model of memory by escaping from husband and house, removing herself both physically and mnemonically from her situation as the wife of Menelaus. Helen does not remember according to either the male or the female paradigm, but in the process of transgressing these norms, she illuminates some of the complex interconnections between the arts of memory and poetry.

Melissa Mueller, Penelope and the Poetics of Remembering.

[frankengenderfreak]

noel fielding is so fucking gender

[rat-in-the-clown-motel]

[ren-054]

Saw my reflection and didn’t recognize it for a second

[outta-trouble]

wait if i am kinda nb/ag and femenine leaning does that make me transfem