Perhaps genderqueer/gender[frack] describes something more fluid than androgyne?
Is androgyne a combination of the binary? Or, is androgyne a third option? If it's a third option, then perhaps genderqueer/gender[frack] are a fourth, or maybe a fourth & fifth?
It does seem to me that androgyne is an identity and genderqueer/gender[frack] is an expression of an identity.
Posted on: September 28, 2008, 09:51:03 am
My last reply wasn't as lucid as I intended, so here we go again.
In a sort-of crass way, the tern "gender[frack]" is an apt one. It seems to imply, to me, a person who openly and publicly challenges the ideas of what is socially constructed gender. As such, yes, it is an expression but not necessarily an identity.
"Genderqueer," to me, isn't necessarily as openly confrontational "gender[frack]," but it could be. From what I've noticed, there seems to be political ideas associated with the word "queer." Bigots use the word as contemptuous. But, there are those who self-identify as queer as an expression of challenge towards societal "norms."
I don't care for the term "gender[frack]" as it seems unnecessarily harsh and crass. I don't quite care for "genderqueer" either, as one of the main definitions of the word queer is in essence strange or abnormal. So, I prefer the phrase "gender fluid." To me, it implies the same concepts as described by "gender[frack]" and "genderqueer," but in a less confrontational manner.
I never set out to **** with people's concept of gender identity. Nor do I think there's anything all that strange or abnormal about what I am and how I identify myself. There are days when I feel "masculine" as defined by society and days when I feel "femminine" as defined by society. This to me is fluid, and so I prefer "gender-fluid."
