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RE: What is Gender? Is it a Social Construct?
We really need to stop using LABELS to define ourselves. I am gay, i am straight, i am a potato.
I am a human being and I'm attracted to another human being. We need to stop defining and labeling people.
but we tend to fear what we don't understand... And we should not be driven by fear, but by love!
That's not really a reasonable way to go about things. Human beings use heuristics in order to organize and order the world around them into some easily-digestible and recognizable form. It behooves us as individuals to not allow preconceptions to limit our interactions, but we're always going to categorize people. It's a natural function of the human brain; it's designed to seek out patterns and use labels.
Yes, it is true that our brain is designed to see patterns, but everything is not as it seems. The world around us is constantly changing and we use same old patterns in different instances in our society. It's time to look at things from different perspectives and not let labeling to define ourselves. Can you be defined by something? Are you able to categorize yourself? I think it's only limiting.
Well, generally speaking, you define yourself by your ethical framework. This is inescapable, as it will determine how you interact with other people. All things being equal, your ethics definitively categorize you. Beyond that its what you choose based on your subjective preference, and what limits your biology imposes on you.
In that case there are multiple things that can define me, not only my ethical framework and they may change over time. What defines me today, is maybe not what you see tomorrow.