• What does mean to be of "non-binary" gender?
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Oh, a mod's called me out. I apologise for my poor writing, but here's some stuff I picked up from three years of sociology/Psychology. Women have far more reproductive value than men, and that influences a lot of things. It isn't just that they have more strength;Men dominate war because if they suffer a lot of life losses, it doesn't decimate their people's ability to create the next generation. Men like hunting and stuff because women can't hunt all that well when they're pregnant (everything evolved in pre-gun times). But women are still capable of gathering/home maintainance. More relevant is that people look at partners. Women want the best. Because they have to carry children for months and need to be supported. Men want the most. That's biology, but it leads to behaviors. Men impress women with stuff that says 'I'm a provider' and naturally develop interests in whatever that is, which may change from culture to culture, but is true in all cultures. Women want to look healthy to better compete for men, and develop complex social networks to either support them or deal with rivals (since, unlike men, murder is harder when you're weaker, and men aren't going to like it when wife A kills wife B) . They might also decide that the best provider is a different person from the guy with the best genes. (which reminds me, men and women fear cheating for different reasons. Men fear cuckoldry, women fear he'll spend less resources on them because he's got someone better, both fear the possibility that they're loosing in competition) So, Gender is linked strongly with biology, because biology obviously leads to gendered behavior.
I don't want my own biological children and am uninterested in sex so what then lol. Gender may be linked somewhat to biology but that doesn't mean it's something we're stuck with. Like I said earlier, it's fluid and can be different entirely. Trans people don't always adhere to what their biological sex dictates and even a lot of cis people are entirely uninterested in attraction, relationships, or anything that can be compared to mating competition. We're in a society now that no longer requires the archaic instinctive stigmas that go along with our biological sex and because of this, these societal norms that insist we adhere to these specific criteria are mostly manufactured. We don't need to procreate, to compete for mates, to mate at [I]all.[/I] In the same way one can't use the justification of instinctive physical traits to denounce the existence of gay people, one can't use it to dictate that we [I]have[/I] to stick to these roles and norms "just because". Does that make sense?
[QUOTE=Pascall;51833599]I don't want my own biological children and am uninterested in sex so what then lol.?[/QUOTE] But most people [I]are[/I] interested in sex and eventually want children. Not being standard issue is fine. Most people aren't gay, trans, or interested in being worshiped as the messenger of the sun. Being outside the "competition" for making little humans really lets you benefit and help other people. You can be good for society without being [I]standard issue[/I]. [quote]Jack..... biological sex =/= gender.[/quote] So I wrote an argument supporting a statement and you wrote a statement without an argument. Do you have an argument? I don't mean to be a prick, but appeal to logic.
Tbh it's an unfortunate fact that labels are gonna exist as long as we're community driven, I think. We want to be apart of groups of people who are similar to us in different ways and we might always be that way. It would be ideal to break down the barriers of labeling, sure, but until that happens, some people are gonna get weird and creative. Which I definitely don't fault them for.
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