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Jun. 6th, 2010 05:17 pm Okay. I understand why you think the cisgender system and the binary-opposition idea is foolish. But it's something that you can't just boycott. It has too many repercussions.
Take for example the french language. I speak French. I speak it semi-fluently, and on a semi-regular basis. All nouns are either masculine or feminine. No inbetween. If I want to continue speaking the french language, things are going to be masculine, things are going to be feminine.
More so, I do English Literature at school. One of the key focuses? Gender. Masculinity. Femininity. If I boycott the cisgender system and its binary oppositions, I am completely fucked. I will fail the course, because I'll have nothing to talk about in my essays. Especially the ones that have a question specifically regarding gender.
So, embracing the system we have? For reasons such as these? This does not make me a bad person. This makes me a person who understands the flaws in what you're trying to do. Your eventual aim is wonderful, but this is most certainly not the way to do it. Think, children, think.
On that tl;dr note, currently reading The Glasswrights' Apprentice. Mindy L. Klasky. Stupid, stupid woman.
The crown prince is killed by a glasswright, so the king outlaws every glassmaker in the city, burns the glasswrights' guild to the ground, and pretty much destroys them.
DID THE AUTHOR NOT THINK? DID SHE NOT GO "OH WAIT, FUCK, THE ECONOMY OF THIS CITY WITH ITS GLASS WINDOWS AND SUCH IS PROBABLY TOTALLY FUCKING RUINED RIGHT NOW, MAYBE THIS ISN'T A GOOD DECISION FOR MY CHARACTER TO MAKE."? SERIOUSLY. GAH.
Take for example the french language. I speak French. I speak it semi-fluently, and on a semi-regular basis. All nouns are either masculine or feminine. No inbetween. If I want to continue speaking the french language, things are going to be masculine, things are going to be feminine.
More so, I do English Literature at school. One of the key focuses? Gender. Masculinity. Femininity. If I boycott the cisgender system and its binary oppositions, I am completely fucked. I will fail the course, because I'll have nothing to talk about in my essays. Especially the ones that have a question specifically regarding gender.
So, embracing the system we have? For reasons such as these? This does not make me a bad person. This makes me a person who understands the flaws in what you're trying to do. Your eventual aim is wonderful, but this is most certainly not the way to do it. Think, children, think.
On that tl;dr note, currently reading The Glasswrights' Apprentice. Mindy L. Klasky. Stupid, stupid woman.
The crown prince is killed by a glasswright, so the king outlaws every glassmaker in the city, burns the glasswrights' guild to the ground, and pretty much destroys them.
DID THE AUTHOR NOT THINK? DID SHE NOT GO "OH WAIT, FUCK, THE ECONOMY OF THIS CITY WITH ITS GLASS WINDOWS AND SUCH IS PROBABLY TOTALLY FUCKING RUINED RIGHT NOW, MAYBE THIS ISN'T A GOOD DECISION FOR MY CHARACTER TO MAKE."? SERIOUSLY. GAH.
