Possibly not the best thread to write this, and anyway it's a bit long.
I may be mis-remembering this; if so, I’m sure someone will correct me.
In that bit where most of the women were discussing sexism and misogyny and India went off for a pee, I wondered what the conversation meant for her. She couldn’t participate, because that’s a significant part of womanhood that she didn’t have, being a male until she was 50. It But then I wondered if she felt maybe guilty in joining in sexist talk at work when she was a man.
I almost felt sorry for her. But then she bitched about it in the bedroom with another housemate, something like: that kind of chat gets on her tits? Very dismissive.
I couldn’t understand what she was doing with a pillow on her head, until she said something about practising the walk. Which is where it all came together for me.
She insists she’s a real woman, but she doesn’t have the experience of growing up as a girl and woman. She cannot be part of the “sisterhood”, for want of a better term. She even has to learn to walk the walk, because her male biology means she has a male gait as her pelvis/hips are not female.
It’s all a house of cards, isn’t it? She, like others, have been fed a lie. And when that lie gets challenged, as it should be, then that house of cards comes tumbling down, with possibly catastrophic consequences for the psychologically vulnerable.
But, in the meantime, and to prevent that consequence, we women have to shut up. Their lie is more important than our truth.