He definitely did one of the better jobs of explaining it that I've seen.
I especially liked when he asked her the question about wearing wigs, high heels, outwardly expressing emotion including to cry in public, if she associated that with a man or a woman. She got a bit sidetracked because she seemed to actually be hurt that as a woman she was seen as having those characteristics and she saw that as weak. When he got her back to it and revealed that those were considered masculine traits in the 1600s I think that for her and many listening they could finally understand what it means that gender is a social construct.
Like I don't have to be the one to mow the lawn or take the bags of garbage out of the house and put the bins on the curb, or replace the alternator in our car. But I sure as **** know who I think the neighbors expect to see doing those things.
I'm by no means trans, but I've never been particularly concerned with being perceived as especially manly. I do things that a lot of people would think that a straight married man wouldn't do. I do the vast majority of the cooking. I almost exclusively do the dishes. I do more than 90% of the grocery shopping. But I also change the brakes on our cars. I do home repairs.
Maybe 20 years from now home cooking will be viewed as more masculine than feminine, because that is actually how gender norms work. They change.
Trans people are trying to change their gender role. That isn't an attempt to overthrow social order. That is them trying their best to engage the world on their terms in a way that brings them the most comfort.
I also do most of the dishes - I used to do them all, but them I messed up my finger and started leaving the pans for my wife to do in the morning, and we have just kind of kept on with that. In part that's because I have done way too much research on how to load the dishwasher.
