Spiritual Musings on a Chemical World

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Gender Neutrality: Crazy Hybrid Breed of Ignorance

What a show. When men decide they are men, the world rejoices. When women decide they are not women, people wonder. But when one woman decides she is neither, she is seen as an idol.

Who are these people? Where do they live? Why is it so focusing to think of gender as something you can change at a whim? Why does it matter if you are seen as masculine or feminine, or even possessing of a penis or a vagina? Why do you have to redefine it?

I know why this happened. I will explain. It started with a woman. She was 8 years old. She grew up not to think very highly of other women, and she thought makeup was stupid. She did not want to wear makeup. Then she decided, hey, I'm not very feminine at all! I don't like makeup, I don't like hair stuff, I like short hair and bobs. I like no makeup, I like style not at all unless it involves baggy sweat pants, and I am a loser at heart. Why not just identify as neither? I'm not very feminine! Sure, I do things like emote constantly, believe in horoscopes, eat too much chocolate, and think about my feelings and stuff. But I don't like makeup, therefore I am not a woman.

So she thinks to herself, I get along better with men. That's what they all think. They think, I get along better with men. Why am I made to use a public restroom designed for women putting on makeup? I should have my own special restroom! Therefore, there will be no line!

Then, she decides to butcher the English language. She would rather not be called she, but rather, ze. Ze did zer clothing. Ze love zer dog. This is easy! She thinks to herself while thinking it slowly. Everyone should call me ze instead of she! I mean, it's more appropriate, it doesn't offend me in a certain very subtle way to think of myself as a woman, which I clearly am not. I am a whole new transmogrified breed!

Then, people look startled when she asks them to address her as ze. She gets mad, saying it's easy, if you think it's hard for you, think how hard it must be for me to ask every single person to say this! It's so hard, it makes my eyes bleed. So give me a break. You are done. Bye.

What I think is, there is nothing of the sort. There is no such thing as neuter gender. There is no such thing as in between. There is a such thing as a hermaphrodite and that's as close as they come. Hermaphrodites usually identify as one gender or the other, and not both at the same time.

I think they should give it up. You are fooling no one. Just because you don't think you are feminine, doesn't mean you get to redefine the human race. Are you a man? That's something different. I respect the idea of transexuals because it is a real biological problem, where a person feels they have been born into the wrong body gender wise. There is no such thing as no gender. There is no such thing. There are people who don't exhibit lots of feminine or masculine traits despite being a woman or man. This is normal. You have to live with your gender. You don't have to go out of your way to fulfill society's requirements for how a man or woman should look or act. That means you are thinking like a real person. But don't go so far as to say, I'm neutral. That's dumb.

Seriously, being gender neutral is dumb. That is all.