Comments | the_elaine: I don't know if I should be proud or horrified

the_elaine

I don't know if I should be proud or horrified

Apr 26, 2004 06:31

While watching C-SPAN coverage of the "March For Women's Lives" with some girls from around the pod from 2 am to 5 am (this was completely impromptu as we were eating Taco Bell and avoiding our studies), I actually argued the point that gender is not a binary ( Read more... )

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scrollie April 26 2004, 12:34:45 UTC

Why would they cast you out?

the_elaine April 26 2004, 19:29:15 UTC

they wouldnt really cast me out, they love me. in fact most of them agreed with me though 2 did look at me like i had three heads when i proposed a society without defined gender roles. it was really not the argument to be having a 5 a.m.

nannyogg April 26 2004, 16:55:23 UTC

Do you mean that gender is not binary because there are really so many different expression of gender (instead of just masculine and feminine)? Are you using "gender" to mean the socially constructed ideas of masculine and feminine? Or are you using it to mean sex? Sex is also thought to be a binary (male/female) but there are really so many more sexes than that. Though American medical institutions try to make any intersex children's genitalia conform to that male/female binary again. Down with falsely constructed binaries.