And here's Shane. Shane who folds his clothes before sex. Shane who will always be happy with a cold ginger beer. Shane who has a stylist and an interior decorator because he likes things to look objectively nice.

Shane who answers "How many times can you cum in an hour?" completely literally. Shane who has no filter and comments on the bed being dirty within 0.2 seconds of cumming all over it. Shane who comes out to Ilya the moment he figures it out himself, and who tells him point blank that it's not just sex, because he never ever expects Ilya to read his mind.

The way everyone just humors his manhood, just like they humor him as Laura’s partner, but never truly accepted him because he was never ‘one of them’. His manhood is only affirmed when he does something in favor of the Tall Pines Ponderosa cult to manipulate him. Like when he kills Riley, he’s just ‘a husband protecting his heavily pregnant wife’. But when he starts doing what he knows in his gut is the right thing, suddenly it’s all,

‘You’re a murderer and we are too forgiving of how fucked up you are because no one else will accept you, you just can’t help yourself when you get the chance to be violent, how many times are you gonna be the victim, I’m tired of cleaning up your messes, are you gonna arrest me officer, you’re a coward, I never liked you, you’re playing house, you’re a tragic cliché, living in a nuclear family fantasy, using Laura and her baby to make you feel like a Real Man’.

Just like Julia Serano says in Whipping Girl, a transsexual woman’s gender is considered ‘artificial’ if she’s particularly gender conforming. Laura’s personal bullshit aside, Alex wanted to be a better dad and a better man than his father was for Laura and their baby, and he’s ridiculed, accused of delusion and manipulation to roleplay his idea of what a ‘man’ is. Alex’s traditional masculinity in his transsexual body is considered ‘artificial’ and ‘false’.