Does gender offend you?
Posted by davidmcnab 9 years, 6 months ago to Culture
In recent years, I've been seeing gender coming under sustained attack, of relentlessly increasing intensity.
People are now arguing that the very concept of male and female gender is restrictive, oppressive, discriminatory, and needing to be done away with.
The new PC-fashionable derogatory term is "genderist" (or "gender binary"), which is being hurled around with similar viciousness to the terms "racist" and "sexist" in the 1960s-80s.
I am happy and grateful to be male, and my wife is happy and grateful to be female. But we're starting to see an era in which we will be increasingly marginalised and ridiculed for honouring our natures.
It kinda shocked me the other day to see a female Facebook friend on social media, whining about the existence of separate "Boys' toys" and "Girls' toys" aisles in department stores. And another friend is saying she wants to tour around eastern Europe "as a man".
Meanwhile, some jurisdictions are now allowing births to be registered without gender.
How do folks here feel about gender? Personally, I do see some links between those attacking gender, and those attacking ownership and economic self-determination.
What are your thoughts?
People are now arguing that the very concept of male and female gender is restrictive, oppressive, discriminatory, and needing to be done away with.
The new PC-fashionable derogatory term is "genderist" (or "gender binary"), which is being hurled around with similar viciousness to the terms "racist" and "sexist" in the 1960s-80s.
I am happy and grateful to be male, and my wife is happy and grateful to be female. But we're starting to see an era in which we will be increasingly marginalised and ridiculed for honouring our natures.
It kinda shocked me the other day to see a female Facebook friend on social media, whining about the existence of separate "Boys' toys" and "Girls' toys" aisles in department stores. And another friend is saying she wants to tour around eastern Europe "as a man".
Meanwhile, some jurisdictions are now allowing births to be registered without gender.
How do folks here feel about gender? Personally, I do see some links between those attacking gender, and those attacking ownership and economic self-determination.
What are your thoughts?
