Gender, Homosex, BDSM, Christianity & Updates
Woah — it’s been almost a year since my last post. For my readers; both of you, I apologize for the lack of updates. I’ve been busy with family, fun and love … managing work during the in-betweens. But, my kids are now all in school full-time (10 years in the making!) and I’m hoping to write more this year.
I’ve spent the morning reading a blog I stumbled on by Hugo Schwyzer, a “community college history and gender studies professor, animal rights activist and Episcopal youth minister”. Topics include gender, BDSM & Christians, homosexuality, Older Men and Younger Women, and many of the comments are as interesting and insightful as his original posts.
I think I found the PunkAssBlog through a comment from the above mentioned blog. Tons of quality reading material here. “Homosex” is a good post, I also dug “Transgender” in which the poster mentions:
I was encouraged to consider any and all professions growing up, and marriage and parenthood were practically never mentioned to me, also thereby eradicating any discussion of those future gendered roles as well. In short, I couldn’t imagine wishing to be either a boy or a girl in particular in childhood, as both genders were pretty meaningless to me in terms of defining who and what I was or ever wanted to be. I was neither pleased nor distressed to be a girl , and if I’d suddenly transformed into a boy, I really don’t think I would have cared too much. So did I lack a strong gender identity because of my upbringing, or because I personally simply lack a strong gender identity period..?”
In my youth I believed gender was B.S. and everyone was just “pretending” to be boy-ish and girl-ish. As a teenager I believed gender was mostly a social construct, and folks were conditioned into their gender roles. After I had my own kids (2 girls and a boy) I recognized their was A LOT more to nature in the nurture vs. nature debate. In other words, I’ve only just recognized that gender is not a choice for everybody… but it is for some people.
So, what I’ve learned is that shit is complicated.
Stay tuned…
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