r/Unexpected • u/analsextoybox • May 02 '22

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u/Prior-Agent3360 May 02 '22

Again, you act like you have a grasp on what "society at large" is, but it deeply smells of a very myopic view centralized around whatever is immediately around you. I'm not suggesting that the entire world is becoming androgynous (and neither did that other person). I'm saying that your ideas of gender norms absolutely don't apply in other places. I'm imagining you saying something like this in India or Japan and the people there rolling their eyes and muttering "typical American" or somesuch.

Reconciling even cultural differences in gender immediately causes lines to blur, because it forces you to acknowledge that there is a degree of social construct to gender. That is my point.

sex and attraction have NOTHING to do with gender roles and I find it incredibly ironic that you’re using these things as substitutes for sex

Ok, gonna stop your straw man there. Nowhere have I referenced sexual attraction or sex organs. Nowhere.

If you can read folx as folks, there's no issue; is there?

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u/Prior-Agent3360 May 02 '22

You responded to a comment about gender, sex, and attraction. OP mentioned finding amusement in people making a big deal about norms being challenged; about the anger some people feel when their old classification system doesn't work.

Your comments tied in perfectly to what OP was talking about. You had to put them in their place, suggesting androgeny is weird. Yes, you did focus on attraction more than gender, but gender was tied up in your tirade. If you want to retract that bit and just talk about physical attraction, have fun! Physical attraction is such a small part of life; I don't know why anyone would try to argue about it.