(Rethinking) Gender

Be vat you is, not what you not. Folks who de is are da happiest lot. -Tudor Turtle

The world would really become a better place when it realizes that the creation of the "exclusive monotheistic god" Judaism came up with has led to all sorts of aberrations against nature. In rebelling against self-proclaimed ???divine??? Pharoes, Jews lifted their own tribe at least to the status of ???chosen people??? modelled after a ???real deity??? and laid out rules and regulations to organize life as best suited their culture and times. Christianity -- which essentially had a social rebel in Jesus infuse some Buddhism into Judaism to make it a little more tolerant of human "sin" (he who is without sin shall cast the first stone, etc...) ??? then saw Churches arising only to stifle more natural social and intellectual progress. Sole proof required is consideration of all the potential ideas and scientific proofs leading towards real truth(s) we either never learned or took centuries more to discover because the Catholic Church killed countless thinkers (women, etc...) it deemed non-conformist/blasphemous dangers. And Islam, the latest ???branch??? of Judaism...Do I really need to go there or should you just turn on the news? Ancient cultures valued thought and open discussion in their efforts to seek truth. Humanity???s decline really began with the notion/imposition of a fake exclusive monotheistic entity with hundreds and thousands of taboos against everything that comes naturally to people. (thinking/questioning included, as I was taught in Catechism during my childhood indoctrination into it that this too would lead me to hell...). We will only really rise again after that concept is killed. (versus tolerated by establishments like the UN and modern democracies.) All of you about to come down on me for this entry (assuming Newsweek keeps it) may want to consider the struggles Europe is facing in dealing with Islam today for a modern/concrete example of religious incompatibility with respect for core human decency/progress.

Who cares what people are? We're all people. As long as individuals are true to themselves and find their own happiness then, who cares. It's no one elses business anyway.

I agree with CAstrawberrygirl for the most part but as a part of said academic world I would have to add its less about accepting your gender and more about not feeling the need to conform to gender roles. For the most part i think if gender roles weren't often so narrowly defined one would feel comfortable expressing themself regardless of gender. That said, however; if a person feels the need to get a sex change operation to be happy who am i to stop them. In short i agree but for slightly different reasons, perhaps there needs to be more of a separation between Identity "who they are" and gender roles "who they they think they are". Just my two cents