Gender is often described as a social construct. This description usually contrasts social construction with other unchanging, unambiguous concepts. Through Chiara Bottici's analysis, I argue the concept of myth breaks us from this dichotomy. By understanding myth as the persistent creation of significance through narratives in response to a need, we no longer leave myth to untruth and unreality. Instead, we see myths as a way to direct people’s actions by giving them a way to see the world. By integrating Bottici with Merleau Ponty's phenomenology, I argue the significance of myth occurs through embodiment by organizing gestures. These gestures take on a system of significances that give us a coherent world. This system of gestures produces gender scripts. The question is not how we reject such scripts and their received meanings. The question becomes: how can we act our gender to produce a more open mythology?
