I know that it has significant meaning to me but I struggle putting it into words to explain it to other people (especially other dya cis people). So like a few years ago I was thinking about if I may be trans femme. I have since realised that no, actually I was just struggling with it for a while because I don’t relate to the gender roles and expectations society puts on men. I now identify more strongly with being a man than ever before, and I love being a man in a gender-way. I just absolutely hate being a man in a “what role men have in society”-way.
Gender and gender roles continue exist in our society because they have for a long time and too many people find it threatening to challenge it. For some reason they see it as an attack on their gender, as if any of us care what they call they call themselves.
We have to highlight it because our politicians are literally criminalizing expressing yourself in terms they don’t personally identify as and find vaguely threatening.
Rephrasing, I understand why it still exists in that sense, but don’t understand the viewpoint of the people that are threatened by challenging it, necessitating it’s role in society.
That’s not something I fault them for, it’s just something I don’t share an experience with.