Comments on: A Slight Case of Cognitive Dissonance http://transcendgender.com/2008/05/26/a-slight-case-of-cognitive-dissonance/ A place where ideas TRANScend GENDER. Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:17:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Renee http://transcendgender.com/2008/05/26/a-slight-case-of-cognitive-dissonance/#comment-232 Wed, 28 May 2008 04:05:29 +0000 http://transcendgender.wordpress.com/?p=112#comment-232 To me, the most interesting thing about your anecdote is the relationship of the mind to the artifice that is the “Women’s Restroom”. I mean, the restroom convention is a completely artificial construct that’s become part of our cultural understanding of gender. There’s no instinct or intuition that men or women are born with that automatically tells them which restroom they’re supposed to use. It’s a completely learned behavior…one I remember being fairly confused about up until a certain age. And here you are, well past the age of having learned all this, and suddenly you’re reduced to three years old again where none of it makes any sense. And quite possibly it’s all because of the introduction of hormones into your system (although in truth, I’m sure it’s not nearly so simple).

At any rate, the very idea seems quite mad scientist-like to me. Did we make the rules, or do they make us?

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