ext_1711 ([identity profile] thirdblindmouse.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] alixtii 2007-12-03 08:15 am (UTC)

Re: LJ: land of the sex pollen

I guess unisex was a poorly chosen word. No sexual difference between members is what I'm getting at. As much as I tout (and truly believe in) the importance of diversity, and of variety being the spice of life ...I'd rather hang out in a park full of geeks, or a social networking site full of fangirls, or a house full of close relatives. People who are like me. I don't know how far I'd believe anybody who said they felt otherwise. It's the relief of coming home, knowing that there's so much of yourself you won't have to explain, or justify, or take into account as a variable.

I don't see why lack of gender would be so difficult to imagine. For example: I was raised in a household where women and men wore roughly the same clothes, (except for underwear and my father's neckties), where both women and men would do the same chores, where both women and men could specialize in the same academic fields, enjoy the same genres of entertainment. Would it be weird for me to have a peer environment similarly lacking in those aspects of gendered behaviour? Quite the opposite, of course. Why do you think gender in general is inescapable?

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