QuoteA genderless society is a fascist society. Your unique gender expression, and those of everyone else, would cease to exist, instead replaced with uniformity.
I don't wish to appear to be putting up arguments against the majority, but I think this statement demonstrates that the whole argument is flawed.
It poses several claims. That a genderless is somehow fascist. That gender expression would cease to exist and somehow be replaced by uniformity.
Sadly, the general culture seems to assume that fascism and Nazism are the same, so I'll work on that basis. The supression of a characteristic, assuming it is even possible, will not necessarily lead to a fascist society. Fascism is considerably more complicated than that. (Though with respect, I think the writer is referring to a nazi society).
That gender expression would cease to exist is an assertion that can only be made if we fully understand the nature of a genderless society, how it is achieved, what social mechanisms will be introducted or engineered.
Replaced by uniformity, is the greatest of presumptions. Even assuming it could be achieved, ti would simply be replaced by other divisions. Humans, by their nature, divide themselves. We are doing this right now, by not all saying exactly the same thing.
I don't know if this is the nightmare hte writer is thinking about, but I personally, would like to see a society where people can express themsleves in which ever way they choose, within the boundaries of consideration and decency. I can't define those last two, any more than we can now. But restrictions should always be justifiable rather than dogmatic or traditional.
Now in such a society, there would be no gender expression as such in that, there will be no distinction between how men and woman, dress, develop their characters, who they fall in love with or what they call themselves.
That seems pretty genderless to me.
