On Gender Metaphors

I've seen a number of posts on tumblr talking about the metaphors of transness and gender identity. Landscapes are popular, like in this quote from Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer, comparing binary genders to the sea versus the mountain and nonbinariness (nothing about that word looks correct...) as a forest between the two zones. I've also seen memes asking people to describe their gender or presentation without using any conventional gender descriptors. This prompts responses ranging from charming gremlin descriptions to vowel-based wordless shrieking.

It's fun. This is how we have fun.

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