#i can't imagine that if humans stay essentially the same type of creature (they're extremely varied!!!) they'll be able to abandon this ide | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

despair-tea · 2 months ago

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one thing I dislike is the sophomoric idea that society should, naturally, move towards a completely genderless model. I get where it's coming from, but it assumes an impossible level of homogeneity rather than accepting that - in the infinity of genders that DO and WILL exist - there are some which will take familiar forms and patterns and names.

Like, look, I don't live in the androgynous future ze're imaging. But if I did I would still feel alienated and out-of-place in a slightly different way from the way I felt growing up under gendered capitalism. Because I'm not genderless, and I know damn well that I'd still feel some calling to change... something about myself. Even without words like "woman" or "witch."

It's a nice dream. it might be comforting to some. But it seems like an airy fantasy to me, and not one I can see myself living in.

Obviously I agree that the barriers between genders need to be broken down. Obviously I don't think the traditional gender roles as our society sells them to us are working. But the future I see has more kinds of people and not less.

#random musings #this came up in a zine i read the other night #i mean obviously i won't live to see the hypothetical gender-free future but #i dunno it didn't work out so well in tengoku daimakyou #just trying to keep the kids ignorant of concepts like sex and gender #i can't imagine that if humans stay essentially the same type of creature (they're extremely varied!!!) they'll be able to abandon this ide #gender is a fuck #if it's something that's imposed on you from without #but for some folks #gender is something you can't give up no matter what #not a rational or a logical thing but something deeply tied to identity in a way that can't be cleanly separated #this fantasy then simply supposes that these people are wrong and would naturally fall in line if society simply “forgot” about gender #which i do not agree with. i think new genders will still crop up even if the public is ignorant of the whole concept #even without words or images or examples to express it the idea will come back #unless humans become a very very different type of creature #but that's neither here nor there - we're still talking about human society #so what - should these folks just suffer silently in a different type of society? seems a bit counterintuitive #(personally i'm of the opinion that there are at least as many genders as there are people - but probably more)

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