No, I think you misunderstood M. It's in place to allow children not to be placed into gender roles. Society conditions children into taking on roles..ie..girls play with dolls, boys with cars. This way it allows the child to pick whatever they feel. There is no conditioning then. It's about freedom when you think about it.

Pony

That was a great post! I enjoyed reading and thinking about it. I believe the real danger is not the gender roles themselves, or words that define the roles, but society forcing its will on the individual. If
you read the last two sentences of the HEN article you’ll get to “the British town of Brighton proposed abolishing titles like "Miss," "Mrs" and "Mr," replacing them with the gender-neutral "Mx". My concern is not the adding of new words into vocabulary but, the abolishing of existing words. It’s a subtle but pervasive form of mind control ( It is impossible to think about concepts that you have no words for).

We have now ventured into the very dangerous territory of making certain words
forbidden because they hurt other people’s feelings (and are therefore “bad”). What will happen when i become offended at being called old, or fat, or Latina, or blonde for that matter. Whose rights to feelings are more imortant than others? Where does it stop and who gets to decide? ”This
notion of forbidding people “ Bad Words” is a danger because at its base the
concept is illogical.

I remember not too long ago some man chastising Alison for
using the term lezza. He insisted that she not use it again and that she was
ignorant for using it!? A man who by definition is not a lesbian,
telling a lesbian what words she is allowed to call herself...Its absurd.

I see no problem with gender roles if people are free to
chose or not choose them. It’s always been interesting to me that lesbians for
example, even in this day and age are still very much into the
butch/femme/top/bottom esthetic. These are women who are free to choose
anything they want and yet they choose these archetypical male/female roles
even when the esthetic doesn’t match their sexually reality.

Anyway, don’t want to get into a whole boring political
conversation. Let the record show that I LOVE WORDS and reserve the right to be both top and bottom!

-FAB video Border! Had not seen it before.

@A_is_A ...."Let the record show that I LOVE WORDS and reserve the right to be both top and bottom!"

You and me both! (Although I tend to take control)

A_is_A said:

It’s always been interesting to me that lesbians for
example, even in this day and age are still very much into the
butch/femme/top/bottom esthetic. These are women who are free to choose
anything they want and yet they choose these archetypical male/female roles
even when the esthetic doesn’t match their sexually reality.

Anyway, don’t want to get into a whole boring political
conversation. Let the record show that I LOVE WORDS and reserve the right to be both top and bottom! 

something i've often pondered myself.

Ponygurl said:

I don't want to turn this into a lesbo thread...but it seems Kiyuri already has...

Huh? How so?

BTW, I only just saw Kiyuri's animation... thought his post was just the corgi pic.

Eep! (watched, praying one of my lodgers didn't walk in, lol)

Ah, fair do's!

BTW, this summer, I had - for the first time - a guest ring up for a booking, and say they were a gay couple, and would that be OK!? Might have been because there was an infamous case recently where a couple running a guesthouse, also in Cornwall, refused a gay couple. I think they said they objected not because of their sexuality but because they weren't married. Doh!

^ Yes.. a female couple... they were some of the friendliest guests I had all summer. :-)