{"id":204320,"date":"2014-06-26T14:43:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T14:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/26\/people-want-to-believe-gender-is-something-thats\/"},"modified":"2014-06-26T14:43:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T14:43:49","slug":"people-want-to-believe-gender-is-something-thats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/26\/people-want-to-believe-gender-is-something-thats\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>People want to believe gender is something that\u2019s essential, and people repeat these essentialist ideas all the time. \u201cOh, women do that\u201d and \u201cOh, men do that\u201d and the reality is that all women don\u2019t anything. We as individuals do what we do, you know, and sometimes that\u2019s informed by gender and sometimes it\u2019s just who we are. And I think all that just makes people really, really uncomfortable because they don\u2019t want to think about who they are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/2013\/08\/laverne-cox-trans-people-should-not-put-their-dreams-hold-because-who-they-are\" target=\"_blank\">Laverne Cox<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ancient-serpent.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ancient-serpent<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People want to believe gender is something that\u2019s essential, and people repeat these essentialist ideas all the time. \u201cOh, women do that\u201d and \u201cOh, men do that\u201d and the reality is that all women don\u2019t anything. We as individuals do what we do, you know, and sometimes that\u2019s informed by gender and sometimes it\u2019s just &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/26\/people-want-to-believe-gender-is-something-thats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1109,14279,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}