RE: [Serious] Please convince me gender is binary
January 25, 2019 at 3:47 pm
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2019 at 3:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 25, 2019 at 3:22 pm)tackattack Wrote: OK I'm not arguing I don't have preconceptions and bias, I'm aware I do and am seeking to overcome them. You defeated any idea of non-binary when you said "girly guys" or "manish women" .Yes, but, also included in my comments was that the very phrase "type of guy" differs from culture to culture, and things that we place in one heteronormative gender binary here may belong to the other heteronormative gender binary there or even be a common trait of males here regardless of what we tell ourselves about heteronormativity and gender binarism.
It may be a subset, or type of guy or girl, but it's still a guy or girl. Perhaps rather than making declarations about personal pronouns and safe spaces, we could just accept that being a man is about more than just being a jerky jock and being a woman is about more than a maidservant? Wouldn't it just be a shit ton easier if we just accepted that our ideas of what a man and woman are vary based on culture and person proclivity, then what's going on out there now?
People who reject heteronormativity and gender binarism -are- accepting that our ideas of what a man or a woman are, gender...have a basis in culture and personal proclivity, you..if you'll recall, based your ideas on some idea of a natural function, instead.
We could explore that, btw, and by reference to my final comment of heteronormativity from the last post. Would you kill a motherfucker if I asked you real nice? Some of our structural differences with females, as males, are thought to be adaptations to violence...positively lethal violence. That would mean that lethal violence is at least one of your male natural functions. If you're unwilling or hesitent to kill...does that make you less of a type of man?
If a female were more willing to kill..does that make her more of a type of man than you?
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