MATT BRIGGS on gender [sic] as a construct. “Do we need to point out the central tenet of gender[sic]-as-construct is faulty? After all, how do we know boys act like boys? I mean, how do we know these young people are acting like boys unless we know that this is how boys and not girls act? It is because we have characterized and classified the behaviors of mini-humans with outies in every culture and time and said, ‘This is how boys act’ and then forced boys to act according to this catalog? But then how do we know to ‘construct’ the behavior of an outie except by noting he is an outie? It’s easy to get lost in this tangle.”