What about nipples?

Amy: It’s interesting, Blake, that you reduce gender perspective to the ownership of a vagina or penis, as though biological matter was the only thing that “influences perspectives,” as you put it. And yet, we live in a world where people don’t need to have those body parts to identify as male or female – I know this feels old hat by now, a la Judith Butler’s performing gender, but don’t you think that, across cultures, people have some very large and immediate ways of dividing up and the very first obvious one, within every culture, is by gender, which entails all sorts of behaviors, modes of speaking, ways of “expressing” and requirements of silence, etc? *And* one gender has historically been prioritized as the “better” or more favored one – without fail, that is almost always the male. I feel like I’m explaining something so obvious that I’m missing something. Do you really think this issue is reducible to simply having a penis or vagina? People write, behave, and speak in gender-coded ways, whether it is natural or learned or simply demanded. And certainly, other factors such as race, weight, class, etc come into play when “influencing perspectives” – no one has denied that, so why is it either/or? Don’t talk about gender differences, expectations and especially gender disparity, which is factual, because, what? It just can’t be true? Is that what you’re saying?

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