The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition finds that not conforming to your assigned gender can be rather dangerous.
Over the past 10 years, more than 50 young people aged 30 and under were violently murdered by assailants who targeted them because they did not fit stereotypes for masculinity or femininity. The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GenderPAC) today released the groundbreaking human rights report “50 Under 30: Masculinity and the War on America’s Youth” documenting this tide of murderous violence and the key demographics of its victims and their assailants.
And some thought provoking quotes on gender from one of my favorite books:
"When I pluck my eyebrows, I'm becoming more of a woman." I say, "When you stop plucking yours, you become less of a woman. When I fuck a man, or his boyfriend," I say, "and my chest is shaved, and my eyebrows are plucked, and his expensive underwear is pulled aside so that his cock springs free into my mouth, what do you have? Is gender really just tits?"
"And women who develop breast cancer, who have their tits cut off, who wear the same breast form fakes as I do when I'm all dressed up, are they less than women?" She hangs up and my anger is confused because I don't know what I believe anymore myself. If that's what gender is, just an illusion, then why don't I fuck women?
Why are some people so angry when others don't conform to a behavior based on whether they have a penis or a vagina? Why do we keep enforcing these harmful stereotypes?
50 in ten years? I don't know if that number is supposed to shock me...I feel like more people than that died of fatal mosquito bites in the past ten years.
The point is that 50 young people were killed for doing things like wearing skirts or going in a men's restroom or wearing makeup. And these people were beaten to death, burned to death, etc. I find this to be quite tragic.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
-Voltaire
Am I suppose to comment because you said tits alot, cuz I can say tits too?!
Read more from me at: http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/jewels07-0
You did comment just becuase they said tits. Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose.
Gender is in a way just "tits." More appropriately, it's your physical state. Male and female are only physical descriptors. It's gender roles that are what make things confusing, not gender. Gender roles are determined by ones society and evolve very slolwy.
-Tim
"It costs nothing to be honest, loyal, and true." -Avett Bros.
I would define sex as your physical state and gender as a constructed social role. "Women are emotional." "Men don't cry." etc. Problems occur when one is forced into a gender role because of one's sex and when one gender role is more highly valued than another. Many people would also argue that our current ideas of gender (masculine/feminine) are far too confining.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
-Voltaire
Gender and sex are synonyms. They mean the same thing.
"gender as a constructed social role. "Women are emotional." "Men don't cry." etc."
That is a gender role.
-Tim
"It costs nothing to be honest, loyal, and true." -Avett Bros.
From Definition
A person’s sex is dependent on genitalia. A penis is a male sexual organ, the vulva, female. Sex is physical a combination of medical, biological, and genetic characteristics. Not everyone’s sex is purely male or female — there is a wide range of variation. Intersex people are born with a medical condition where they possess ambiguous or mixed physical sexual characteristics.
From Wikipedia:
Gender is the socially projected component of human sexuality. Perhaps the best way to understand gender is to understand it as a process of social presentation. Because gender roles are delineated by behavioral expectations and norms, once individuals know those expectations and norms, the individual can adopt behaviors that project the gender they wish to portray. One can think of gender like a role in a theatrical play - there are specific behaviors and norms associated with genders just like there are lines and movements associated with each character in a play. Adopting the behaviors and norms of a gender leads to the perception that someone belongs in that gender category. Gender roles are, unlike sex, mutable, meaning they can change. Gender is not, however, as simple as just choosing a role to play but is also influenced by parents, peers, culture, and society.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
-Voltaire
We live in a society that fears the unusual and in response throws their hate at all that is wonderfully exotic and strange.