Yeah, honestly, if you could find some science-fictional way to raise children with no stereotypes about gender until they reached puberty, at that point, you have a society that really doesn't even care about gender at all and probably wouldn't bother "assigning" one.
(In my head ages ago I imagined a space drama set on an all-female planet, sort of a Whileaway thing, and in my head they had a handful of "genders," sort of along the lines of "high femme/low femme/soft butch/hard butch" etc., but not exactly. And then you had the cultural confusion of women from a not-all-female planet coming in and the all-female culture being like, "... we can't tell what gender you ladies are and it's weird." And they were like, "We're women!" and the all-female-planet women were like "But you can't just be a woman, you have to have a gender!" ... I still want someone else to write that, someone who's not me.)
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Date: 2011-10-01 06:43 pm (UTC)Yeah, honestly, if you could find some science-fictional way to raise children with no stereotypes about gender until they reached puberty, at that point, you have a society that really doesn't even care about gender at all and probably wouldn't bother "assigning" one.
(In my head ages ago I imagined a space drama set on an all-female planet, sort of a Whileaway thing, and in my head they had a handful of "genders," sort of along the lines of "high femme/low femme/soft butch/hard butch" etc., but not exactly. And then you had the cultural confusion of women from a not-all-female planet coming in and the all-female culture being like, "... we can't tell what gender you ladies are and it's weird." And they were like, "We're women!" and the all-female-planet women were like "But you can't just be a woman, you have to have a gender!" ... I still want someone else to write that, someone who's not me.)