Gender

The idea presented in The Left Hand of Darkness is that the characters can choose their gender. The idea presented to us today seems to have good timing. Right now we have two movements happening, one to rid the world of gender norms, and two to allow people to be whatever gender they feel themselves as. As they’re almost contradictory, it’s hard to express that I am a supporter of both. Part of the book talked about what a friend even is if that friend could be a lover in the next moment. I’m not sure I agree with this thinking as a rejection of the central idea. A lover should be a friend. And not everyone of the gender you’re attracted to is going to be a lover. They may just be a friend. I guess everything would be simpler if we didn’t care what clothes anyone wore or what genitals they had underneath those clothes. As long as one person isn’t harming themselves or anyone else, why does it matter? It says nothing of what they carry in their brain, what they’d have to say if asked a thought-provoking question.