No Sex Please, We Have Evolved

A week or so ago, a female friend asked me if I felt pride in the male gender, in the same way that she felt pride the female section of the population. And the answer was no.

Now, that could be because ‘man’ has achieved all that he needs to prove ‘himself’, and therefore needs no longer to demonstrate his capabilities, and so pride wouldn’t be elicited.

But no, oh no. That just ain’t so.

The reason that women feel pride is because, despite the continued pervasive assumption of being ‘better’, the edifice is showing distinct signs of fracturing.

So, having decided there was nothing to be proud of, as a gender, the question of ‘What next?’ arose.

And the answer is simple. Well simple to say, anyway.

All we need to do is move the goalposts. Or rather, scrap them all together.

If you want to remove the struggle that now exists to define what masculinity is, then remove the definition. If people of all ages are confused as to where on the male-female continuum they are, then scrap the line.

There are enough variations possible if the dividing criteria are centred around the individual’s genitalia, without the added pressure of possession being attached to a particular definition.

The world, and the scientific and technical capabilities within it, allow for a totally different approach to what we are, and who we want to be.

The binary classification that has existed for centuries is already getting distinctly smudged around the edges, and this trend will only continue in one direction. Because, however reactionary the status quo tries to be, there is no bottle big enough to get the genie back into its previous incarnation.

So, instead of man, we have person. Judged not on pre-set criteria of masculinity, but on what it is as a person; what it can achieve, what it can add to the world.

And when each man stops trying to prove they are a ‘man’, then women will get what they always should have had, equality.

Because, if masculinity doesn’t exist, then there is nothing to prove, including that they are naturally superior.

Simple. Solved. Next!