"You are making everything about gender. Stop bringing it up if you want it to go away."
This is ironic because we are actually trying to make gender less relevant. It's curious where society locates the blame. What about the gender-reveal parties, the birth certificates, the gendered sections at clothing stores, the driver's licenses, all the ways that society imposes gender on us all? When things like this are normalized, they become invisible and we don't even question them. Critiquing gender is not the same thing as creating gender. Not talking about it won't make gender inequality go away; in fact, that's precisely how this injustice persists.
-- Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary, p. 44
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