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Also about gender roles
-20Cinderella and Aladdin are the exact same story with the gender roles reversed, amirite?
Also about social pressure
+100It's sad to see people intentionally adhere to stereotype due to social pressure, amirite?
Also about girls, guys, and gender roles
+429It really sucks that there are gender roles, especially if we've got past the womens roles but not the mens. If a girl can play football and there's no problem, a guy should be allowed to be a cheerleader or be able to straighten his hair without being called gay or have judgement passed on him. If girls can be tomboys, guys should be able to be girly-girls, amirite?
What about people that have a vagina but identify as male or vice versa?
The point was that gender, genitalia doesn't matter. People should just be what they want instead of having to worry about gender and if what they're doing identifies with whatever they in their crotch.
"The only requirement to be a guy is to have a penis, and the only requirement to be a girl is to have a vagina" is what I was referring to.
Oh, I see. It slipped my mind to add it in the post, but now I see it's a crucial flaw. :/
Trans people make up a tiny percentage of the population, they're statistical outliers for most things about gender or sex, they can be excluded sometimes when discussing such things, as 99% of the population aren't transgender or intersex, the vast majority of people are clearly male or female.
Like frogy8thefly, I agree with your point - all being a boy or man should mean is that you're male, and all being a girl or woman should mean is that you're female; it shouldn't have anything to do with your personality traits (aggressive, submissive, meek, cheerful, caring) or interests (cars, cooking, make up).
The testosterone and estrogen helps attribute to those certain traits though.
Sure, those traits are more easily observable because we're biologically more likely to be that way. But you shouldn't have to feel pressured to conform to 'your gender' if you don't carry those traits.
I agree that people have the ability to choose, but it would be going out of their natural ways is what i'm saying.
If your personality naturally identifies with the accepted gender traits of your sex, that's cool. I'm not saying you have to act differently to go out of any natural tendency. I'm encouraging the embracement of natural tendencies.
I don't know why this has so many thumbs down. It's the realest post I've ever seen on here, and really made me think. Thank you.
agree and disagree. gender stereotypes shouldn't be so important, but instead of having "the bits" the requirement to be a gender should be that you identify as such (so as to include trans*)
thats all
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This post is too idealistic. There are a lot of "identifying traits" that are unnecessary, but there are plenty that are necessary. Claiming that the only requirement for gender identification is to have either a penis or vagina is asinine and naive. (I'm not even arguing from the transgender POV.)
I don't know if gender roles are presently or will, in the future, be detrimental and/or act as an impedance to humanity's progress, but I do know that if it weren't for gender roles being established they way they were, humanity as a whole would not be where it presently is. So I definitely think that system has some merit to it.
Whether or not gender roles should stop being so distinct and start being more integrated is not something I'm privy to, but I do think our current status as a species is due in part to gender roles.
Of course our current status as a species would be different, and perhaps gender roles were necessary to survive in terms of evolution. But currently, in today's society, they're useless.
This is kind of how I feel when my brother calls me a girl for watching MLP,