I’ve written a lot about my experiences talking about gender with friends and classmates and colleagues and even perfect strangers. But I’ve struggled to find the words to talk about something that often trundles alongside agreement. I’ve lost count of how many conversations I’ve had where my interlocutor agreed with everything I said, but where I knew that if they grasped the strange significance of the things we discussed that they would suddenly lose the scent.
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