And there are so many parts of my womanhood and sense of self as an adult female person which were inextricably shaped in direct reaction to what I learned about masculinity and society's malformed construction of it in 1986 (and it's continued malformed construction in 2024).
The woman I am is a direct product of the horrible things I learned about what this world insists on masculinity and maleness taking the shape of under a violent and brutal patriarchy.