Gender

[Chocofreak13]

binary on a large scale...


now i'm just expecting a bunch of big "1's" and "0's" made into furniture....

[IanDanKilmaster]

Pardon the confusion over terminology, Bella just used the term and I thought it sounded better than "two-gender system" or any other variant, so I stole it.

For future reference, binary (as a general term) refers to anything consisting of two parts.  As everyone knows, binary code consists of 10 parts: 1s and 0s, a binary system is a system composed of two celestial bodies orbiting one another, etcetera, etcetera.

Anyway, I guess I can reap some satisfaction from the fact that at least gender has started moving away from assigning roles, but of course, equity is still kind of a fantasy at this point.

[Chocofreak13]

i get it.

but now i'm thinking of space and computers and gender all thrown into one item...... ^^;

oh time-space, you konfusin MF. ^^;

[NejinOniwa]

If you think timespace is confusing, come back after trying to visualize a RSTME-axial coordinate system...IT'S AT LEAST 5 DIMENSIONS TOO MANY TO SEE IN THE FIRST PLACE >_>

[Chocofreak13]

oh you; you're gonna be a success. ^^

xD nerd. like me.

[Chocofreak13]

oh you; you're gonna be a success. ^^

xD nerd. like me.

[Bella]

... I still recognize things as masculine and feminine, but none of it is clouded by sexual appearance...

Even though I believe that there are genders outside the typically recognized male and female, I'm rather bound by "masculine" and "feminine" when it comes to classifying the traits of these "other" genders. IOW-- I would classify somebody who displayed feminine and masculine mental traits equally as being part male and part female instead of some other gender. Then again, there are some people who seem gender neutral... neither male nor female...

Maybe that's just a hard-wired human way of looking at things? :?

[IanDanKilmaster]

I don't think it's hard-wired... it's just something that's become ingrained growing up in our society.

Essentially, it's something I do not because I necessarily believe this is the way the world works, but because this is the concept of my world which has been reinforced since my childhood.

[Chocofreak13]

i've always tried to keep most aspects of life gender neutral. there are certain things which are required to have gender (conception, for example) however most other aspects (hobbies, style of dress, ect) which do not require a gender but are usually assigned one.

[IanDanKilmaster]

Giving birth is a matter of sex (physical) not gender (mental), or is that not what you meant by conception?

[Chocofreak13]

good point. i'm confusing myself. ^^;

the creation of new humans is also where he whole gender/sex thing gets a little moar confusing; you don't HAVE to be a man and woman to have children, but physically, you do.

[NejinOniwa]

At least without, you need to if you want to make do without TECHNOLOGY...

[Chocofreak13]

yeah, technology has solved the biological problem...

[Sora]

...further blurring the line between the genders.

[Chocofreak13]

tech tends to blur the line between lots of things....