Tag: Gendered

The Myth of Gendered Genius

If I asked you to close your eyes and picture a genius, who would you see? A scraggly-haired scientist in a lab? A tech guru like Steve Jobs, or a rule-breaking, superhero inventor like Tony Stark? One way or another, it would probably be a man. This is hardly surprising. In popular culture, geni...

I Was Gendered Correctly by a Non-Queer Stranger for the First Time

YF drives; you doll yourself up in the luminescent mirror, perfect, as you like. Bobbi Brown’s multi-stick bronzes your cheekbones; the brand’s chunky rose-brown pencil demarcates your lips’ boundaries as a cartographer’s ruler slices the Prime Meridian. Google Maps escort...