From men who can't cry to the women who think they shouldn't. From exclusionist feminists to 'alt-right' young men. From little girls who think they can't be doctors to teenagers who come to expect street harassment. Gender isn't just screwing over trans people, it's messing with everyone. And two years ago, as Juno Dawson went to tell her mother she was (and actually, always had been) a woman, she started to realise just how wrong we've been getting it. Before our names, before we have likes and dislikes - before we, or anyone else, has any idea who we are. 'It's a boy!' or 'It's a girl!' are the first words almost all of us hear when we enter the world. May we recommend shopping at our favorite independent LGBTQ store ‘Gays The Word’ it’s the oldest bookstore in the UK.Print The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both Juno has an extensive back catalog of books ranging from educational to fictional stories for young adults, all of which can be found online. I couldn’t wait to read The Gender Games when I got home after my new-found knowledge from the amazing talk. Nathans Juno discovery stated in 2017 coming across ‘The Gender Games’ at the literature festival, afterwards, they did a book signing so I went to meet her to get my book signed (I’d already purchased the book beforehand). It made me think about how I say things at school where I work and how I can change things for the future. Boys play football and girls play with dolls and how we say to children about finding a boy to get married to if they’re a girl and Vice versa. It gets the reader thinking about gender and how we are as a society.
It is a complex minefield of a subject and it explained things in a way that anyone could understand.
Juno sets out to educate on the toxicity of how she as a gay man tried to be what was deemed ‘accepting’ of her role as a gay man. However, the fight to be seen as equals with men is a continuing battle. This is absolutely ridiculous to me, women have a set of standards set by generations and media to how to conduct themselves, it’s not easy being a woman, not to take that away from men who are now being more vocal about toxic masculinity. Besides this the bigoted people who believe trans woman are imposing on women’s culture…. The Gender Games is without a doubt a big eye-opener, without really thinking we are led to believe a range of things and what gender really is, the particular part that struck me was the passionate talk regarding intersectional femininity and not excluding everyone who isn’t a white female.
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