Wednesday 9 September 2015

13. Blur the Edges of Gender Roles


Returning to the concept of   "blurring the edges" of gender roles
described @:  Livin4d Deconstructs Gender Role Fallacies http://livin4dtoronto.blogspot.com/2015/09/livin4d-deconstructs-gender-role.html,
Let's examine how this blur will affect society:
As personality attributes are no longer the result of 50/50 gender split, rather they are the result of Oxytocin levels determined by our genes located on Chromosome 3, it is time to start making drastic societal changes to prevent our limited growth potential and restriction by gender.
You can imagine where these  societal these may lead us?? To start your imagination flowing:
-Bathroom changes in malls,
-Training focuses: construction, sewing etc.
-Sexual roles in the bedroom
-Language we teach our children
livin4d understands these "gender role" differences as a spectrum range of variations rather than the above mentioned split division of 50/50 personality parts attributed to designated male and female ideologies.
On this new gender spectrum, there is some overlap male into female roles and some overlap of female into male roles. This overlaping spectrum concept applies to both an individual personality level and to differences among the genders on a societal level.
Of course (with the exception of some physically ambiguous cases) our physical sexual beings on the outside remain easily recognizable. I'm not suggesting we all go out and blur the edges of our bodies!! I am solely dialoguing  about our inner psyches and consequent external parameter restrictions.
"Sex" hormones (supposedly) evolve over time once again blurring the edges of the already blurred edges.
It is important to keep these sub variables in mind when we are examining intra-personal psyche and intraterpersonal interactions. As these hormones decrease or sometimes increase with age, it is important to monitor variables that contribute to evolving change and not stay stuck in the narrow-minded view that it is "because she is a girl," and it is "because he is a boy."
By knowing effects of internal and external variables, we can appropriately adjust for such variables such as sleep, food, mineral supplementation, sex and exercise, as they all have effects on these hormones resulting in personality and mood changes.
It is important to always keep in mind the big picture with internal and external variables that can contribute to personality formation rather than gender differences.
The current baseline assumption of gender roles and effects on personality are simply narrowsighted and wrong. These concepts have intergenerationally been around for quite a while so we actually don't have clear aerial vision as to the fallacy of them because we are too "high" off the ground to see where the gender erections went awry.
We continue to live on the 13th floor believing it is the 14th floor. Nothing wrong with this idea as long as we innately know the 14th floor is really the 13th floor. Let's not only be honest with ourselves but have the courage to deconstruct  intergenerational gender false truths.
I am not suggesting for men to go around wearing dresses and put in makeup tomorrow nor am I suggesting every woman turn into Hilary Clinton. That said if adults want to follow the aforementioned paths, so be it. I am simply suggesting to blur the edges of current narrow minded parameters with the vision of creating a new expanded humanity and interconnection.

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