Re: Gender Importance

From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Thu Apr 22 1999 - 22:55:48 MDT


Jocelyn Brown wrote:

> Of course, once we get to the point where we can use technology to
> change our gender predispositions, all bets are off. I just know that both
> genders have skills that are necessary, and I don't know how likely it would
> be that on average one person could have both sets, since they both involve
> characteristics that I don't think would mesh well together. Of course, who
> knows what a transhuman could accomplish?

What would really be cool is if we could change genders *temporarily* and
easily. Would not we all become more insightful beings? We could
create enough marital harmony that marriage half lives would exceed a
century, if only, at the impasse of any argument, the couple could both
temporarily switch gender. I would not wish to *stay* the opposite
sex, but there is little I would not give to be able to walk a kilometer
in their mocassins. spike



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