RE: What is Gender? (featuring @sykochica as author)
Glad you featured this. The topic is presented really well. I enjoyed it. @sykochica cheers!
Gender as a social construct can be hard thing to really comprehend, seeing as masculine and feminine do exist. That's where the confusion comes from I think. There is proof that those concepts exist as if not we wouldn't recognize transgender at all.
Biologically male and female people, even if completely portraying masculine and feminine traits of their gender outwardly, do not necessarily find fulfillment in ways typical for that way of being, well, no one is a stereotype or wants to be thought of like that, right.
I believe there are masculine and feminine roles. As if not, it makes no sense to feel as if born in the wrong sex (to use that one type of gender fluid experience as example). Some people have trouble comprehending that the desire to live those roles doesnt always come from the hormone levels and genitals one is born with.
In my opinion if the world was lacking in polarity completely and all truly androgenous, it would be a boring, unfulfilling place...likely very utilitarian with sex for pleasure either bred out of people or forbidden as in dystopian futures we know from philosophical fiction.
well, i think its a topic, which is usually not spoken too much in our cultures. so in Asia its very common and accepted and even integrated in the culture. but our capitalistic worlds dont seem to have a place for this topic. it just doesn't fit, but i think its important to bring it up, because the way we react, is really rude and hurting people who suffer with their "gender"
You should write something about how it is integrated in Asian culture. If you havent already. That would be really interesting to people outside the culture. I've never been anywhere in Asia, and my impression is that trans men are accepted as "sex workers" but I think that is just a small part of it.
Very well said!
Personally I see this more of an opening up the spectrum. While some may choose to identify as androgynous (or non-binary,) I suspect the larger group will still prefer to be identified as a male or female, even if they would put themselves as say 70% in one direction instead of 100%.
Thank you for reading! :)