Genderfluidity: One Step Forward Or A Giant Leap Backwards?
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I noticed this on the Guardian website this morning:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/23/gender-...
I'm not sure what to think about this. If it's a step towards a time when people can wear whatever the hell they like and no one bats an eyelid then I'm all for it.
But there seems to be a logical black hole at the centre of the argument. If I aspired to be genderfluid I'd first need to define what I was flowing between. Cultural evolution has decided in favour of one set of behaviour patterns for males and another for females - and our mental equipment hasn't developed much beyond the stage it was at on the Serengeti when the subconscious reaction to a stranger was 'is this a threat or can I shag it?'
In other words, any deliberate aim to present oneself as the 'opposite' gender involves recognising the attributes with which society has endowed it. And in doing so reinforcing them.
I probably haven't expressed myself too well in this blog. How I should have put it was 'It's cool to be trans, but not if I have to transition.'
Someone stuck me on the losing side
Everything is someone else's fault
We're not good enough for me to care
And the mantra is
"Too much effort, there's never time"
And your sole solution is a high pitched whine
It's not red-hot coals, it's not busted glass
There's no Mau-Maus after your sweet pink ass
So if not now when, if not now when, if not now when?
If not you, who then?
No one wants to be the first to fail
I won't play unless you guard my back
And the mantra is
"Change the system, and please arrange it
To change some way that I feel no change"
It's not flaming necklaces, household spies
There's no market bombings, no bullets fly
Bosnia, Bosnia
Try spelling "Herzegovina"
Where money talks and bullshit walks
The bullet or the ballet box
Babylon, oh Babylon
We babble on in Babylon
The TV blows, the music sucks
The bullet or the ballot box
We're not good enough for me to care
And the mantra is
"Leave the gun on the table loaded
The first to grab it's as good as voted in"