"Gender is something men enforce on women and sometimes on other men" — cartoonishly unnuanced oversimplification
"Gender is something we all enforce on each other" — weaksauce, out of touch with material reality, leads to absurdly optimistic belief that we can solve all gender problems through education
"Gender is something that people with power enforce on people without" — useful, draws attention to the fact that gender is overwhelmingly enforced by adults onto children
@aisling people without power enforce gender on other people all the time. gendered norms are largely enforced by peers even if the initial orders come from above. incredibly reductive view that plays into trying to create good guys and bad guys when the reality is most people are horribly oppressive to each other all the time
