Well, because it’s important for everyone to be politically correct these days (i.e., make the most ambiguous status there is), now, no one even has to declare a gender! What is so hard about deciding which one you are? And what’s WRONG with it? I came across this on a form for Enterprise Rent-A-Car.
Having gone to a very liberal school, I consider myself to be open-minded even before I went there. And I don’t subscribe to the traditional gender roles and don’t see why I can’t do some of the same things as my male counterparts. One thing I did in Gambia that got me glances was take guitar lessons from a friend of mine. Just the instrument I wanted to learn was something unusual and especially for [gasp] a female. Another friend (that I had thought was progressive) told me he took it as a joke that I was doing this and if I had to learn an instrument, why not the piano? And oh, the glances I got carrying it around…
I digress. I see the argument that having to choose male or female is very restricting as its and either/or choice and one does not want to subscribe to prescribed societal labels. Yes, I don’t like being told I have to cook and clean the house because of the parts I was born with but having some of these labels help us to know the basics of members of our society.
Hey, if you choose to not self-identity at all, who am I to tell you different? You can label yourself as a hybrid leprechaun and cheetah if you want but the rest of us (not speaking for everyone else outside this grp wither) would at least like to know if we should address you as a he, a she, or something else you chose…
PS- another possible title for this piece was: he…she…it?!
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