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Dean Van Nguyen: We need to think about the gender norms that confer power and status to males
Paul Murphy TD and his partner Jess Spear’s decision to raise their baby gender-neutral invites us to consider how we treat children simply based on whether they are a boy or girl
Over pints in Dublin city during the summer of 2018, I asked a prominent feminist writer whom I was pleased to be meeting socially for the first time what I personally could do to reject gender norms. I had been rigidly presenting as male all my life. I was ready to challenge the binary, kill the deep-rooted assumptions about masculinity, and trip the gender spectrum fantastic. Or at least I thought I was. Because her ...
