Livre d'Or

Given the sheer amount of effort that goes into gender policing of self and others, I would be shocked if most people had never experienced gender anxiety. Think of the macho cis dude who, after expressing a not-masculine-coded emotion, has to go do something macho to reaffirm his masculinity. That sounds like gender anxiety to me, and also self-gender-policing. (It also sounds like toxic masculinity, but that one's beside the point.) And one of the points Libby Anne made in a recent Love, Joy, Feminism post is: If males and females are so naturally distinctive, why the need to so heavily program them, and then shame them if they don’t conform? Why not just let them alone about gender expectations and let nature take its course?