A review by bookph1le
The Gender Games: The Problem with Men and Women, from Someone Who Has Been Both by Juno Dawson

4.0

This book really helped me to think about gender and my relationship with it, something that's interested me a lot over the last ten+ years or so. As a Gen Xer, I'm really glad to see conversations like this becoming more prevalent, and I hope younger generations have a much better and healthier relationship with gender than I think people my age and older have had. I honestly think the world would be a much better place if we could all get on board with viewing gender as a spectrum instead of a binary. Though I identify as cis, I've always felt uncomfortable with the expectations attached to women, and the older I get, the more I'm willing to chuck aside whatever I don't like rather than trying to stuff myself into a box that doesn't fit me. I have no problem with people of any gender identity enjoying things like makeup, dresses, etc., but I've never personally been a big fan of those things, and it feels so freeing to realize that I don't have to use them in order to be considered a "real" woman. I love the idea of defining gender on my own terms rather than feeling pressured to perform so that I pass muster with whatever society deems acceptable. And let's face it, as a woman, no matter how great you are at performing femininity, you can never actually win, so in my ideal world the binary would be blown up and we'd focus on the content of other people's character rather than their body parts.