There is this question from the COGIATI (haven't looked at that in ages) which goes like this:
"Suddenly the entire world is magically changed. Now you exist in a world utterly devoid of gender. All bodies are hermaphroditic, utterly androgynous in appearance, both male and female at the same time. The culture reflects this, as does all human interaction. You, however, are still yourself inside, with all of your memories of living in our world as it is now. Your feelings are intact, only your flesh has been changed. In this new world, everyone dresses, acts, and lives however they feel at the time, and there is no such thing as being male or being female. You alone remember the world of gender. In such a world, would you still need to dress like a woman?"
A) Without question. I really love being feminine. It would be a very disturbing world, too.
B) Yes. I really enjoy expressing femininity. I would miss it a lot.
C) I don't know. It would be easier to live how I wish though.
D) how I dress is not really the issue for me. I would just dress how I felt.
E) I guess it just would not matter anymore, would it? This is my dream world.
I was just thinking about this, and I realized...before I pretty much thought that although gender caused quite some unfortunate things, including but not limited to sexism, feeling out of place or constrained in terms of gendered roles, assumptions, blahblahblah, even despite all of that, I =also= thought that it was a pretty nice thing too, the idea of expressing oneself as masculine or feminine or whatever. That even though it is terrible to pigeonhole people into these boxes, the boxes themselves are actually pretty cool.
I think nowadays I'm quite a bit more jaded about it. I think the more and more I think about gender and all of these problems the more I feel like it would just be better if it were to just not exist. If all of these stupid terrible things could just go away. Then I wouldn't really care about those boxes; even if they are not inherently bad, they are just causing way too many problems. It would be better gender just didn't exist. Or...maybe humans would just end up finding some other way to @%&* it up anyways.
Anyways, just for kicks, let's actually try taking this thing again!
I took it and got exactly 0, lol (pure neutral??). That makes sense though, given how apathetic I am about it nowadays. Apparently I took it in 2011 and got a -5, then again in 2015 and got a 20. That really doesn't tell you anything about the whole story though, as the perspective I have on these sorts of things is quite different than what it used to be.
Sunday, April 1, 2018
COGIATI (2018), Gender Sux
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