Gender Bender

The other day I read an online stream about gender. I see myself as pretty liberal in terms of gender and sex. I fully accept gay people and the gay community, I understand that people can be confused. However, in this new politically correct era were everyone feels the need to be noticed in a way in which comforts them, I get a little confused.

So once again, I read an online stream about gender. The woman seemed to be in her mid twenties, had black hair cut in a punk rock style and wore heavy liner. Not that I'm judging her based on her style, but it seems that she already fits the visual descriptors that society has set for her. She may be trying to tell me "screw the man," but all I see is a woman molded by societies perception of punks. But as I was saying, this woman had a stream of about twenty tweets informing the masses of the differences between sex and gender and all of the different gender forms that fit under gender. There was cis-gender, and gender neutral, and fluid gender; I could not keep up. But then I thought to myself: What is gender? We live in an ever-changing world, with new ideas and people born into it everyday. The increasing amount of knowledge that becomes available to us everyday is incomprehensible. It seems that because there are so many people and so many ideas, people feel the need to label themselves or they'll get lost. Maybe it's our loosening ideas and acceptance of others, but fifty years ago no one had any idea what a demi-gender, pangender, or intergender person was. Society shapes who we are. Intolerance fifty years ago and the belief that there are only two genders led to the acceptance and knowledge of only two genders. But because of the openness to different people, new genders are being born everyday. While I do not believe in some of the antic and ideas of all the genders, and whether or not I believe they are valid is something else all together. But I accept their uniqueness and the interesting way in which they are conceived.