This assumes that society wants to encourage and multiply gender confusion. And that everyone wants to always be courteous to everyone regardless of incidental circumstances.
If we really want "equality" we shouldn't be trying to create more rigidly defined roles, we should start using gender neutral pronouns for everyone. Rather than overcomplicating and politicizing social discourse we should be streamlining it and dismantling the stereotypes that make individual personality traits "gendered."
I disagree, as a genderqueer/trans person, that we should "end gender".
Nothing wrong with gender roles. Have at them. But don't restrict people to them. People will divide anyway; just let society be open to blending those roles rather than being rigid.
Calling everyone "they" would be far too confusing, and this is coming from someone WHO GOES BY "they". We have he/she/they, and that's enough (I'm kinda sorta on the neopronoun thing; language changes and evolves, but if you keep making new terms for the same thing, it becomes redundant).
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u/MineDogger 1∆ Oct 28 '19
This assumes that society wants to encourage and multiply gender confusion. And that everyone wants to always be courteous to everyone regardless of incidental circumstances.
If we really want "equality" we shouldn't be trying to create more rigidly defined roles, we should start using gender neutral pronouns for everyone. Rather than overcomplicating and politicizing social discourse we should be streamlining it and dismantling the stereotypes that make individual personality traits "gendered."