As an individual, gender can be a blast. But as a society, gender has no purpose at all, other than to restrict and oppress in one fashion or another. I am misgendered every time I go out in public where people do not know me. I don't care at all, because THEY DONT KNOW ME AND DONT NEED TO KNOW MY GENDER. But they have to guess to address me, and then I have to make them feel better when they get it wrong, then realize when I speak that I am not "male". Meanwhile...
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What happened to just addressing people with good morning or good afternoon for example.
So if you were a Doctor would I use Doctor (Dr) rather sir or madam for example. ?
@zleap I suppose a lot of people do, but plenty are in the habit of saying Sir or Ma'am, or maybe I am being referred to 3rd person as he or him or that man. If someone is trying to get my attention and doesn't know my name, it is always something gendered. Here gender could be useful as half the people would know it is not them. But not really because I also think it is not me, and might not get out of the way, or stop or whatever. Unless someone's gender involves me, it is none of my concern.
It will get to the point where no one dares to talk to people in case they unintentionally mis gender someome, get reported, photograpped or filmed and then have their image uploaded to sites like social media with a one sided story
We see a lot of Trial by social media that never seems to actually take in to account what actually happened as those people were never there in the first place.
People are going to just be too terrified to do anything like they are too terrified to challenge kids who are say smashing up a play park or causing other damage.
