Gender is visible manifestation of biological sex. Biological sex is the structure of our reproductive apparatus and is not observable in regular daily activities because socialized humans keep sex organs covered up.
The visible manifestations of sex are called gender and can be of two kinds:
1. Consumerist
2. Conceptual
Consumerist manifestations have to do with how people signal their biological sex to the world through consumption choices. Clothes, makeup, hairstyles, shoes, accessories – all this is the consumerist manifestation of sex. The consumerist manifestation simplifies life because it allows us to know the biological sex of others with no or next to know difficulty. This is a great aid to mating. It’s pretty inoffensive because it’s entirely superficial and very adaptable to the needs of an individual consumer.
Conceptual manifestations of sex are the ideas, behaviors, ways of being, and personal qualities we idiotically and baselessly assign to our reproductive apparatuses. Unlike the inoffensive consumerist manifestations, the conceptual ones can have devastating effects because they force people into behaviors that might be entirely alien to them, create inequality, impoverish people’s lives and cripple their capacity to mate as successfully as they would otherwise. Compared to the consumerist manifestations, the conceptual ones are thus maladaptive.
Sadly, in a consumerist society people tend to believe that nothing is more important than consumption. They easily accept the conceptual manifestations of sex but militate against the consumerist ones.
An example: an acquaintance who keeps telling me she can’t understand how I can be a feminist and dress Klara in pink can’t have a single conversation about her 18-month-old son without mentioning how “you can see he’s a boy in how aggressive he is!” Everybody but the mother sees the kid as the sweetest, quietest human being ever but it’s obvious his vision of self will come from Mommy and not from strangers. Not dressing the little tyke in blue seems quite trivial in comparison to dooming him to aggressiveness because of the shape of his reproductive organs.
Consumerist manifestations of sex are carried out through the exchange of money and goods and don’t influence behaviors.
Conceptual manifestations are carried out through words and influence behaviors.
Let’s relax our fixation on what we buy and concentrate on what we say. In the beginning was the Word, not the credit card.
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“Sadly, in a consumerist society people tend to believe that nothing is more important than consumption. They easily accept the conceptual manifestations of sex but militate against the consumerist ones.”
How does this follow? Do people automatically militate against what they seem as most important? Or is this a sensitivity issue?
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People see everything in terms of consumer choices and simply fail to look for any other explanation or to notice anything else.
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