Oh, don’t I know it. I can’t do it as well as a white cis man can, but if I borrow a slightly too large dress from my mother, and wear a pastel knit sweater I hate, I can hear all the nonsense older Catholic church ladies say in parish halls when they think they’re surrounded by only fellow parishioners. I’m not exactly a woman, but I look like a cishet woman when I wear a skirt, and sometimes that’s useful.
Oh, don’t I know it. I can’t do it as well as a white cis man can, but if I borrow a slightly too large dress from my mother, and wear a pastel knit sweater I hate, I can hear all the nonsense older Catholic church ladies say in parish halls when they think they’re surrounded by only fellow parishioners. I’m not exactly a woman, but I look like a cishet woman when I wear a skirt, and sometimes that’s useful.