grunch

The sensation a woman has when she was for a time free of conscious awareness of the male gaze and did not feel othered, but is then reminded in some way that she is a woman first and a geek, colleague, or writer, etc a distant second. That is, being grunched is the sensation of being firmly and unexpectedly othered.

There it was, the sickening grunch as I landed involuntarily back in my body- and not my entire body either, but specific parts of it.

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