Re: Genderless societies [was Re: kathryn's comments]

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Mon Sep 13 1999 - 14:52:36 MDT


> > Someone mentioned that it is dangerous. Was that Elizabeth
> > Childs? How is it dangerous? Would my sex drive go away?
> > What if I took *both* male and female hormones simultaneously?
> > What if I took estrogen and viagra? Is there an online study
> > group fooling with these questions? spike
>
> If you really want to try being a girl, the easiest and safest way is to try
> being a transvestite. I went to a "come as a girl, whether you are one or
> not" party a few years ago and was surprised to see one of my hairiest, most
> aggressive male friends daintily sipping tea and dishing out the most catty
> gossip.

Why is it that when someone mentions breaking out of current gender-
based limitations, the best they can think of being more like the other
set of gender-based limitations? To hell with "genderless" society;
I want gender differences to /increase/, not decrease. I want real
diversity, vitality, creativity, freedom. I want to be a third or
fourth gender. I want to take plant hormones and insect hormones, not
just female human ones.

I look at current gender traits much the same way I look at current
government: a part of reality that has to be dealt with until we can
make something better. So for now I pay my taxes and trim my beard
while working for the day when I can pay my crime insurance and trim
my foliage.

--
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html>
"All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC


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