A Beautiful Dance

I write in a duel response to my previous posts (where I addressed my views on Abortion as well as a few topics concerning gender and cross gender studies), and to an assigned reading for my English class about Sojourner Truth.

Women's rights have been an issue in this country since before the Declaration of Independence was written. We have come a long way from the darker days of slavery and the oppression of woman. Because of the cumulative actions of many outspoken people we now live in a nation without blatant, legal, slavery that possesses equal rights for the vast majority of all races and genders. Women now have their rightful standing in society with an even footing and a solid platform to assert their strong opinions and be heard around the world.

Sojourner Truth was traveling the country, speaking out against slavery and woman rights; both with equal vigor and validity. The country was on the eve of civil war and people with "different" pigmented skin were being treated worse than crap stuck to the bottom of ones shoe; you give some consideration and thought to the offal while scraping it off. Woman were treated similarly, albeit in a slightly more civil and humane way. With no rights to speak of and nothing to stop a man beating his wife, a woman could not under law give vent to her bound up thoughts and ideas and was unable to contribute her full tempered persona to society.

There is a reason that humans come in two sexes. With man and woman there is formed a beautiful balance, a dance per-say, with both genders contributing equally and diversely. In this dance both the man and women have assorted roles dependent on mental and physical build. Nether role is intrinsically attributed with superior value and neither role is more dominating. We have come closer to this ideal since the time of Sojourner Truth. We now must decide to either continue this fantastic dance that is necessary for a moral based society, or drift away without genders, without the distinguishing foundation of man and woman.   

The Hole Were Headed Toward

Until recently, humans have always been categorized as being male and female, man and woman, masculine and feminine. This distinction is present in all mammals and most macroscopic creatures. The reason for this (other than creation, natural selection, or whatever faith or science one associate's with) is quite simple: its the only way to survive.

In our lively class discussion earlier this week we talked about a verity of topics all based around a personal essay about a gender change. Breaking down many questions including: Why do we put so much stock on our gender? What stereotypes affected the formation of your identity? Why are there still relativity defined lines between genders in some parts of society?

During the whole time in class, there was an overall aura of negativity  towards the lack of non-existent lines in the U.S. We classified today's perceived differences between sex and gender and reasoned that only because of wrongly appointed stereotypes and social expectancy's do we not currently live in a better free world. Never once did we hit upon the underlying principle that is fully necessary for a functional society and that would be lacking in the gender-undefined utopia that we described. The family is the foundation for a successful country and government.

Once sex has no bearing and the gender free-for-all commences, what will hold together the very bonds our social structure? When family is only a restrictive and evil idea of past times and the term marriage is so loose there is nothing to define it or defend it. When basic morals fail to be passed down from self-centered parents to selfish children and humans turn savage without the decency to know what they are doing is evil. What will we do then? We gained our ultimate goal of complete freedom without any government or mediator but at what cost. We do away with gender lines and decided that the huge differences between a man and a woman aren't actually that big. Next were convinced of it and we have humans trying to become apes, grafting fur onto there skin and walking on all fours.