gender abolition
Thoughts on gender abolition / post-genderism?
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A fad
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Anonymous
||Our current genders are the fad.
In every generation, gender is socially re-constructed.
Men used to wear magenta and skirts. That changed.
Styles come and go. Genders will come and go. It doesn't make sense to tie all this baggage to only barely discrete sex characteristics.
In every generation, gender is socially re-constructed.
Men used to wear magenta and skirts. That changed.
Styles come and go. Genders will come and go. It doesn't make sense to tie all this baggage to only barely discrete sex characteristics.
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Anonymous
||I liked it more some years ago when the trend seemed to be towards separating archetypes from sex and gender.
Like you could be a woman that just likes to dress in manly clothes and look muscular and perhaps even talk in a deep voice or whatever and people would be like "yeah, that's what she likes. It's has no relation with her genitals or chromosomes. People just have different preferences."
I thought for a moment terms describing sexual preference like "gay" and "straight" could disappear. But I think somehow things went the opposite direction and we started categorizing things even more, giving them names and making things more rigid again.
I don't think it's an issue. I get how some of these terms can describe things that are important for others. I just preferred it more the other way.
Like you could be a woman that just likes to dress in manly clothes and look muscular and perhaps even talk in a deep voice or whatever and people would be like "yeah, that's what she likes. It's has no relation with her genitals or chromosomes. People just have different preferences."
I thought for a moment terms describing sexual preference like "gay" and "straight" could disappear. But I think somehow things went the opposite direction and we started categorizing things even more, giving them names and making things more rigid again.
I don't think it's an issue. I get how some of these terms can describe things that are important for others. I just preferred it more the other way.
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Anonymous
||I actually support it. I think we should more past s*x too and not just gender to be honest. From a biological standpoint that is what will make us truly free IN MY OPINION. But who knows I might be wrong. I'm a transhumanist so I want to move past all these biological restrictions.
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Anonymous
||I've been participating in queer anarchist and gender nihilist spaces for years and I'm now of the opinion that "gender abolition" and similar programs, while coming from a space of genuine angst and anger at regressive systems, isn't really nuanced enough for me.
I'm more interested in play than in abolition...
I'm more interested in play than in abolition...
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Anonymous
||Gender differences only exist because men were the hunters for hundreds of thousands of years. This caused an evolutionary physical difference because the act of hunting and presumably consuming a majority of hunted food caused the physical difference. Then over time this physical difference lead to institutional dominance because the physical advantage put men in a dominate state. Over the past century or so this process has begun to reverse. Eventually leading to no physical differences. Of course, there were never anymental differences. Just access to education and careers. Over time, there will be no difference between them, again...
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Anonymous
||what's gender abolition
unless there's no sexes anymore that won't happen no matter what
just because you ignore a category doesn't mean it stops existing
unless there's no sexes anymore that won't happen no matter what
just because you ignore a category doesn't mean it stops existing
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