The Emancipation of Gender. Trick or Treat bag.

 

How did gender emancipate itself and go flying into the Sun from the safe alma mater of Earth and ground and autochthonous roots, with wax wings and melt myth? 

 

The common perception is that the dissonance free (or ignoring) cosmic (and cognitive) invocation of the emancipated concept has origins in a simple continuity, or progress:  the gay rights movement, and the much touted "alphabet" identities simply being a gradus ad parnassum of moral Art.   G -->  LGB -->  LGBT -->  but ... is there more to it, behind it, alternative to it than this?

 

                                                 2SLGBTQI+ 

 

I contend that it's nothing whatever to do with the pageant of alphabet inclusion and parade of ... well, not shame.

 

I hold that the real root of the course (and the discourse) is race.  "Race is a social construct," was a huge hit in the nifty slogans bag one readily resorts to in the face of ... well, who's to say that it's not ?  

Backwardness.  

One counters backwardness with readily available breezy bricks of  three little pigs of fortunate fortuity, fortresses, castles of correctness.  Moral bastions. Moral citadels.

 

Saying "race is a social construct" is saying very little to nothing at all.  Race is a four letter word: 

 

R, A, C, E. 

 

So it is.  So what?  It's more meaningful if we use, after, following 1960s style guidance, race, to mean humanity.  The human race.  We are literally all one race. 

 

The human race.

 

This is a meaningful statement. But wait, there's more:  all life is one race.  We are literally all descended from one common ancestor, LUCA.

 

Species barriers?  An interesting yet often inconvenient accident, as genetic engineering has shown, we're missing a lot of potentially valuable genetics. 

 

Race is a social construct theory, absent the wider perspective however lead us to dismissiveness of nuance, of shadows, of shade.  As the Sun set on an old tired tropic of categorization and sorting and prejudice, lines were erased and smoothed over.

Tree is a social construct.  Who's to say exactly where "bush" ends and "forest" rises, majestically, up and up and up and up and up?  Superior? 

 

The first forest was that of Prototaxites.  And we don't know that they had two sexes.  But they probably did.  And gender? Gender is the emphasis in a separate word, of the social construct aspect, at the expense of the thing being pointed to by the indicative finger of mere construction. Gender is to sex as "only a social construct, merely that, and nothing more" is to race, in a ravenous relentless Poetics.

 

We race. From race to gender (formerly sex) and nothing alphabetic was invoked, included, hopped to and across, the alphabet archipelago was by-passed entirely. 

 

If race is a social construct, why not gender as well.  Even weller?

 

And so it goes, has gone, will go.

 

And where does that leave "sex"?

 

In the dust.

 

In the dust bin of history. 

 

Gender becomes a kind of twelve-tone method of dodecaphonic quintessentiality ... the dissonance of incongruity and frankly Stroop effect-like mis-self-reference is just "lived with."

 

 

                                                               2 = 3 

 

2 = 3 

 

 And that's where we are. So if the 2SLGBTQIABCs+ were an expedient pretext--now it's talk about eliminating "gay" as G, as hurtful to "T," then, having established, or at least suggested that from Race to Sex was the true target, the beast of prey in the eye of the predator to slay,

 

Then Race was "slain" as a concept not beyond the pale by ... what? By what means? How?

 

They stabbed it with their steely knives and what is the polite table word?

 

We're familiar with table words.  A cow in the field, on the range, is slain, and the corpse cooked of the cow is a Beef.  Plural, Beeves.  Bovine dead meat to chew on and swallow at one's appetite.

 

The table word for the great proterozoic to cenozoic beast of "Sex," well Sex may safely graze, as Sheep.  As safely as Sheep.

 

A Sheep in the pasture is a "Mutton" on the table, in the dish. 

 

A Sex, when shorn and nakedly shaven, and stabbed "with the steely knife" of pray what do you say, predator and Lord? When it's on the dish, on the table? 

 

A "gender."

 

Sheep is to Mutton,

 

as Sex is to Gender. 

 

 Chicken (or Turkey or Duck) is to Poultry.

 

Cows are to Beef.

 

Race is to ... [ _______ ] ?

 

Once the roaming concept is rounded up and reprocessed by the Woke Zeitgeist, What's the equivalent word for race?

 

In practice we have seen "ethnicity" ... "culture." 

 

In the end it's just shuffled back into an alphabet-like "identity."

 

Self-ID?

 

Not hardly (sic).

 

Why the absence of a word ... a worthy word ... a table word ? As opposed to the field word? There is no word for race equivalent to the g-word Gender for Sex. 

 

There is no high ground upon to build a citadel for strategic retreat.