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What needs to happen to have a truly genderless society?


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In plotting and planning the evolution of humankind, what do you think needs to be done as a basic plan to have a truly genderless society in the next 100-200 years, and how would you define a genderless society and see it operating?
To clarify. I didn’t say a sexless society. I just meant gender as in gender defined roles.

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January 1, 2010

Anna K @ 8:00 pm #

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That would be quite a short-lived society.

January 5, 2010

S P @ 6:41 am #

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I think that idea is horrible myself, and thankfully unrealistic. As to how to pull it off, maybe build a device that can de-evolve humans into single-celled organisms?

Optimus Prime @ 3:10 pm #

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You would have to genetically engineer the next generations so they have no ways of reproducing outside of fabrication (A completely artificial robot pregnancy so to speak). And remove testosterone, estrogen and progesterone from their systems (and replacing them with a single hormone which wouldn’t react differently on the brain.

Just another man: better rule out the human-robot transhumanism.. It didn’t work pretty well for my species.

January 7, 2010

lonewolf @ 3:44 pm #

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Jessica W. No thank you dear. Males are males and females are females. I for one like the distinct differences !!! This is how the lord created us and this is how we will remain until Jesus returns.

January 10, 2010

justfekindoit @ 10:11 am #

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The genocide of womankind.

Its the only way.

January 13, 2010

just another man @ 3:49 am #

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well optimus prime is the only one so far to even try to answer as you asked. I thank the only real way this could come to be is for us to continue to try and give AI self awareness and then have a terminator episode come to pass. or just turn us all into worms.

o BTW very interesting question. also you ask , how would it function. well we may never know but i bet it would not have g&ws but instead have human the lost speices studies.

ok lets take a look at the word then, gender is in one of two forms being male or female thus = what *** you are. to be genderless is not to be of eather. or asexual. i still thank it is a interesting question though and i also thank that in this tim gave a good answer to what you mean then.

Anatol Kuragin @ 2:31 pm #

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Hopefully this will never happen. Mankind exists as man and woman.

January 14, 2010

me @ 7:23 pm #

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Oh give me a break

January 17, 2010

The Fex Sairy @ 8:07 pm #

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Respect would solve a lot of the world’s problems.

January 19, 2010

Tim @ 7:07 am #

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Firstly, we need to get rid of consumerism. Consumerism works by big companies exploiting our instincts and stereotypes to sell us stuff we probably don’t need. Watch a day’s worth of adverts and you’d get the following impression of women:
Women are deeply insecure about how they look.
Women are unable to get through the day without eating chocolate.
Good hair colour matters more than personality.
Gossip about celebrities is more important than politics.
Women think all men are inferior and stupid.
What makes women happy is a clean kitchen.
You’d also get the following advice as to how men should think about women:
Men should see women primarily as *** objects.
Women are prizes to be won.
Women can be bribed into liking you with expensive cars etc.
Men pretend to like commitment, and it is a weakness to identify with women or have strong feminine character traits.

Realistically, though, the only way I can see us having a genderless society in the near future would be to create a Stalinesque society where any sexist attitudes are reported to the police and offenders sent to the gulags. To entirely overcome the indoctrination of gender stereotypes into children we need to remove the instinct to create gender stereotypes in the first place – and this requires a serious re-wiring of the human brain. I was raised by a very feminist mother, and despite my best efforts I still find myself judging a woman on how pretty she is and how big her breats are.

Really, I quit cigarettes a few years ago – and stopping thinking about the most addictive drug known to mankind is easier than stopping trying to make attractive women like me by being all ‘manly’ around them.

Anon @ 10:24 am #

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better to accept gender differences and make the best of it than to avoid the fact that there are differences

shelob @ 6:39 pm #

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To have a genderless society we would all have to be gender neutral.
I do not see that as a necessary or desirable state. I can cope with living with difference.

January 22, 2010

atb5189 @ 9:25 am #

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To have a truly genderless society you need to ignore one gender over the other. You can accomplish this by claiming you are superior and imposing your ways over the Other – or by destroying the Other altogether. I mean, let’s face it, who are feminists kidding? Do women want to be men? Talk to any number of real women and you will quickly learn the answer is no. Do men want to be women? Talk to one sane male and you will quickly learn the answer is no.

Since we are different to expect either party to become the same as the other is pure lunacy. But – for a society to recognize those differences and assign social roles, status, and responsibilities based on those differences is not only extremely efficient – it is very prudent.

January 23, 2010

Blue B @ 12:44 pm #

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Break down the barriers of uneducated attitudes towards gender equality. Total respect would be very difficult to achieve in 100-200 years. It will take much longer for the illiterate losers to die out.

January 24, 2010

Trophy Wife Trapped in Mans Body @ 8:25 am #

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I can’t speak about the rest of humanity, but to have a truly genderless society, I’d need to die.

January 27, 2010

Rio Madeira @ 12:09 pm #

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Enough people would have to speak out against arbitrary standards of gender and encourage everyone to live as whole individuals, not parts of a unit.

. @ 11:45 pm #

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You will have to have men and women having babies. What a stupid concept. Genderless society haha.

January 28, 2010

Eleanor B @ 10:12 am #

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Artifical reproduction and then pretty much whatever we’re doing now. Most people in society are already more into the androgynous centre than extreme male or female ends. Even where people adopt traditional gender roles, they frame it as a personal choice (rather than an expectation) so I would say gender roles are already on their way out – the main difference now is that many women take maternity leave and then around half work part time afterwards – in my crazy sci-fi future neither parent carried the child for 9 months, so both would have an equal bond at ‘birth’ and men would be more likely to work part time – thus evening out the remaining differences :-)

January 30, 2010

Heath K @ 1:03 pm #

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destroy testostorone and estrogen and find a new similar chemical that causes fertility.

January 31, 2010

patois @ 7:55 am #

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It takes suffrage and equal rights. After that, our behavior and rise above acculturations are up to the individual. Society cannot be universalized one way or another. It’s made up of individuals who make their own choices. The foundation of acculturated gender concepts, though, the Master / Slave neolithic paradigm, is waning as humanity increasingly transitions into democracy. Courtship behaviors, especially during adolescence, will probably continue to include transient fashionable cultural trends of gender notions, exploration and experimentation.

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