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vivster said:
WolfpackN64 said:

I think gender norms are a natural effect of having a complex culture. People could whish them away, but that doesn't mean it's possible. Only, the solution of creating thousands of categories instead of two doesn't solve any problem whatsoever.

Once humans start categorizing things, subcategories are inevitable. So the issue starts with having a categorization at all. Having 2 or 2000 doesn't make a difference since they're all useless and destructive.

Not necessarily. It's not because something is a cultural construct that it is bad. Any gender theory that takes note of the fact that we have only two sexes is probably closer to how we as humans operate naturally that one that divorces the concepts of sex and gender. That's why I'm an advocate of two fluid gender categories based on sex instead of two thousand ridgid gender identities with very little sociological foundation.