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Perhaps the question we need to ask instead is, “What is gender?”, followed by, “What are ways to describe gender?”
Notice I didn’t say, “How can we describe gender?” The difference between ‘what’ and ‘how’ is subtle but an important thought exercise in the understanding of gender as an idea or a concept, and less as a label or a container, in which we might try to drop people into.
The later is what most of society has tried to do for millennia, establishing a codex, written or unwritten, of what is ‘male’ or ‘female’. With this invitation, I am asking you to consider what ways you can use to describe gender.
Read the article here: How Can We Understand Gender Within the Fluidity of Human Nature?
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Perhaps the question we need to ask instead is, “What is gender?”, followed by, “What are ways to describe gender?”
Notice I didn’t say, “How can we describe gender?” The difference between ‘what’ and ‘how’ is subtle but an important thought exercise in the understanding of gender as an idea or a concept, and less as a label or a container, in which we might try to drop people into.
The later is what most of society has tried to do for millennia, establishing a codex, written or unwritten, of what is ‘male’ or ‘female’. With this invitation, I am asking you to consider what ways you can use to describe gender.
Read the article here: How Can We Understand Gender Within the Fluidity of Human Nature?
GET PREMIUM!I hope you enjoyed this VIQ Membership episode. When you support the podcast, you'll get my new series, “Thinking Queerly: 52-Weeks of Queer Contemplation,” Coach’s Commentary, AMAs, free downloads and so much more. Click here for details and to subscribe.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.