A random thought (playing with gender again)

A couple of folks I know have made comments over the past while about the value of same-gendered religious or ritual practices for them, or in general.

And I'm chewing a bit on how much of my lack of personal interest in such comes down to the whole "Deborah Tannen thinks that I'm a man" thing. My sense of alienation when encountering common/mainstream concepts of gender is so immense that I'm likely to presume that a gender-specific ritual space is going to leave me feeling shut out, an example of The Other, and otherwise the green monkey. (Which is much how I feel about gender-specific groupings in general . . .)

But now I'm wondering if a genderqueer women's ritual space would throw me the same way. (Or whether it would throw me in entirely different ways. Gods know.)

Of course, that goes off into whole new rounds of definition-baiting . . .