#light spectrum

In our society, masculinity is seen as the default. And since heat, radio, and cosmic background radiation are all part of the IR spectrum, it only makes sense to assign masculinity as infrared.

Women have always been treated as invisible for most of the history of the civilized world. So there's no way that femininity could be part of the visible light spectrum. It feels like the only time women are ever made visible is when they can fail to do something, much like x-rays passing through soft tissue but failing to pass through bone. Thus, one might assign femininity to the ultraviolet Spectrum.

Toxic masculinity is a serious problem, and gamma rays are the most damaging of all kinds of light, So it makes sense to assign masculinity to the ultraviolet Spectrum.

Queer is an all-encompassing title that was invisible to our society up until very recent times. It's only in the Advent of modern technology that things like radio and microwave and x-ray were even understood to be useful, and this is historically about the same time that gender criticism and transsexuality were being explored in the west. And since men and women so often choose to fall into such a narrow array of roles for themselves, it only makes sense to assign the masculine and feminine genders each to half of the visible light spectrum and allow the queer gender identities to have all the rest of it.

There are so many ways of expressing masculinity in so many ways of expressing femininity that one should not try to encapsulate them within the narrow band of the visible light spectrum. They should each be allowed to be expansive.