Identity Crisis?
Been thinking quite a bit recently, been reading quite a bit too.
So I was really wondering, what makes us heterosexual/homosexual/bisexual/pansexual- or whatever else there is, the whole spectrum. Or is there only one gender (we can all love anyone- romantically of course)?
I want to use the word "natural", but in everyone's minds, natural means "biologically natural"- whether a couple is able to reproduce- what else is courtship and intercourse for then?
But what really is natural? If no one told us who to like, how to behave, would we still agree with our respective genders? I remember my friend asking me if I thought gender was genetically defined (intrinsic) or shaped by society (extrinsic). At that point in time I was pretty sure it was intrinsic. I knew I never had any attraction for girls. But then again it's not as if I had an attraction for ALL boys either...And whether I liked it or not, I was raised as a girl- made to sit like a girl (even though I don't always), made to speak like one, made to wear dresses, maybe made to think tall, muscular men were attractive (I mean, look at those movies we watched. And I do believe we can be trained to like something- I ended up having similar tastes as my mum in music, why not men?).
But what really makes you female or male? The way you comb your hair? The way you dress? The way you speak or laugh? Your handwriting? I'm not going to talk about chromosomes because you can't see them. And in the same vein you can't see private parts either. Maybe you could see if someone had boobs, but there are some people who look pretty ambiguous and can identify as a heterosexual too, and vice versa. And if I can't even be sure of someone's gender, what does it make me? I might like all the features (including behaviour) that men have (by society's standards), but that person might just turn out to be a woman. Would it mean that "being tricked" showed that my heterosexual preferences aren't natural?
We could bring up natural substances like pheromones, but really, I don't think they make that much of a difference for us humans.
And I haven't even brought up the fact that there are certainly many traits that both males and females share.
Yeap, still wondering...so...
Maybe pansexuality/bisexuality/homosexuality are just part and parcel of the development of mankind since male and female are becoming more and more similar.
Hmm...
TTFN~
So I was really wondering, what makes us heterosexual/homosexual/bisexual/pansexual- or whatever else there is, the whole spectrum. Or is there only one gender (we can all love anyone- romantically of course)?
I want to use the word "natural", but in everyone's minds, natural means "biologically natural"- whether a couple is able to reproduce- what else is courtship and intercourse for then?
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But what really is natural? If no one told us who to like, how to behave, would we still agree with our respective genders? I remember my friend asking me if I thought gender was genetically defined (intrinsic) or shaped by society (extrinsic). At that point in time I was pretty sure it was intrinsic. I knew I never had any attraction for girls. But then again it's not as if I had an attraction for ALL boys either...And whether I liked it or not, I was raised as a girl- made to sit like a girl (even though I don't always), made to speak like one, made to wear dresses, maybe made to think tall, muscular men were attractive (I mean, look at those movies we watched. And I do believe we can be trained to like something- I ended up having similar tastes as my mum in music, why not men?).
But what really makes you female or male? The way you comb your hair? The way you dress? The way you speak or laugh? Your handwriting? I'm not going to talk about chromosomes because you can't see them. And in the same vein you can't see private parts either. Maybe you could see if someone had boobs, but there are some people who look pretty ambiguous and can identify as a heterosexual too, and vice versa. And if I can't even be sure of someone's gender, what does it make me? I might like all the features (including behaviour) that men have (by society's standards), but that person might just turn out to be a woman. Would it mean that "being tricked" showed that my heterosexual preferences aren't natural?
We could bring up natural substances like pheromones, but really, I don't think they make that much of a difference for us humans.
And I haven't even brought up the fact that there are certainly many traits that both males and females share.
Yeap, still wondering...so...
Maybe pansexuality/bisexuality/homosexuality are just part and parcel of the development of mankind since male and female are becoming more and more similar.
Hmm...
And...just something random from my recent production- Propulsion 2015
TTFN~
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