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Tautologicus posted:Sure, but now it's a thing, with groups and activism and rhetoric and everything else. I simply do not believe all these people now were just a hidden group throughout history that are only coming to the surface now. not even saying that it's a new thing either, but gender bending and the malleability of gender is not any more of a fact of life than rigid gender roles are. They both have their time and place in a sociey. The time and place right now just happens to be all kinds of confused and hosed up, looking for direction and some measure of stability to the order of things. It's a shakeup period. You're right about one thing. They weren't hidden. The Greeks (and later Romans) had a hermaphrodite deity. Sardanapalus was an Assyrian king (and hedonist) who dressed in women's clothing. And the first transgender riots in the United states occurred in 1966. You know; a few years after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Does that qualify as a "period of no adversity or struggle?" Questions of gender identity have been around pretty much as long as the idea of gender existed, and I'm sure new ones will be raised once we've answered the current ones to our satisfaction. Keeshhound fucked around with this message at 20:41 on May 20, 2015 |
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