The Tradëscan Codex

I'm not quite sure where disagreement entered in here. In the credo itself, I was very careful to remain agnostic on whether non-patriarchal forms of language are possible. Elsewhere, I've probably talked more loosely, but at the core is the belief that we notice gender difference for heterosexist reasons, and we notice difference in sexual orientation for sexist reasons. I think one can hold this without collapsing Shamu into Aunto Petunia. (Whether that difference is one that can or should also be problematized is a question that I think can be, for the moment, bracketed.)

So I'm not declaring war on difference (although I'm not signing a peace treaty either); it's gender difference in particular which I dislike and which I think we'd be better off without.