To start off I'll say that heavely believe that gender is much more than just a social construct, even though it can be it as lots of other reasons to it's existence than just socializing.
I need to say that gender is a very complex concept, something that has been seen for more than decades and that existed years before Christ (I'd say that the first signs of it come from between 4000 and 3000 B.C.), it appears to show a difference between the people based on their sex and giving different roles based on it, contradicting the years before, when, besides giving a big value to the ones who'd give birth, the actual roles concerning food, care and many others weren't sex associated. That leads to my belief that gender started as a way to put someone up and oneother down, giving an example of the ancient Egypt (I apologize for using the Egypcian empire and civilization as an exemple twice but is the ancient civilization that I have more knowledge of) the gender roles where important when giving a bigger importance to usually men, though women weren't seen as inferior as in the future times, they didn't have that much of an importance in the eyes of the "gods" if not to host them inside, thing that would only happen if you married the Faraoh or if you were part of his family, seeing a much bigger place to the men.
Nowadays gender is a way to dehumanize some people even it being proved that all people have a same brain complex unless they suffer from a disability or other ilness that could affect the way our body works, but besides that, it's known that there is no difference is people's brain composition (any studies that include the idea that there is a difference between a cis/heterosexual/white/men and trans/homosexual/poc/women 's brain is wrong and was used as a way to hide actualy very racist studies that harmed many, mostly black, poc people), the brain being equal and the brawn achievements, even if with different strugles, being the same gender is just a really old and outdated idea tthat hurts people who may nnot understand it or fall victims of it's inconsistencie.
To get these to an end, gender also won a big place in the industries and as something callled "the pink tax" refering to how a product, just because it's made for women, is usually more expensive and really into the stereotipes that women=pink and nice, men=blue and brute, also used in women hygiene making something needed not affordable. Tho this being an obvious use of the gender in value of proffit I will not elabore much as it also comes to econmical and politic beliefs that have not to do with my disbelief in gender.
Making it simple I sincerely am not able to believe that gender is a thing but a way of opression, not just to the ones represented as women but also to the ones presenting as men.
I don't believe in sexuality, or atleast not in the "homosexuality" "heterosexuality" way.
Well, the non-existance of gender automatically eliminates the existence of most sexualitys, which would lead to the existance of two possibilities that co-exist:
I believe that there would be a spectrum in-between sexuality and asexuality, existing everything in between, a sexual person being whoever feels sexual atraction towards another, that just by the looks and apearance of someone could have a sex desire, and an asexual person being the one who doesn't feel that sexual atraction relative to others.
Co-existing with this would still exist the so-called "libido" that is the name given to sexual desire, some people have a low libido, also called a low sex-drive, and others have a high libido, high sex-drives.
Given this we are left with two sexual spectrums, the desire and the atraction, both which slready exist acording to the gendered norm, the only thing that actually changes is the idea of liking a certain gender.
Disclaimers:
-Even if I don't believe it is real, as we live in a gendered society I respect everyone and do see them for what they are and say they are, I, before preaching my "weird" ideologies, preach for respect for all.
-I should also mention that even thought this is my belief I do respect everyone's gender identity or sexual/romantic atraction.
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dreamspider
You should have ended this with a mic drop. Nothing but facts.
To end transphobia, patriarchy, and homophobia, the very concept of gender must go.
The only thing I would add is that studies that showed a difference between "male" and "female" brains were more favored by publishers than those that found no difference. As a result, more literature reporting differences was published. But as time has passed, it's become abundantly clear that most studies do not support the idea that there's any significant difference between "male" and "female" brains.
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I have actually never even seen actual information on those studies that show any differences between people's brains related to sex or race, but I do find it believable that happens, the media is incredibly racist and sexist
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