The thing is, the original (feminine spirituality/goddess stuff) exists largely as an essentialized reaction to very essentialized masculine traditions, so it is a little odd to look for X in a reaction to X.
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Perhaps if you assume X1 and X2 are the same thing.
I'm past the point of needing it now, but younger me was starving for some X1 action. X2 is a moral desert.
But we don't have any good X1, just perpetual complaint that X2 is already ours and "to our benefit".
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I suspect -- as social mores around "men's work" disintegrate even further -- someone will start a genre to fill the void.
No fucking clue what it'll look like, and I'm bad enough at "male" that I have no confidence I could figure it out.(But whoever does is gonna make bank.)
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The emerging reality is: fitness for different kinds of work has become increasingly uncorrelated to gender thanks to automation. And work has always been the primary sorting variable, so that causes troubling. If we ever invent artificial wombs, gender will collapse entire.y.
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It will collapse further as a social construct. It's already entering the realm of art, like bread-making has for most American households.
Witness the woke parade of genders, and the trad and red-pill reactions. All are gender-as-performance, rather than -as-sortable-essence.
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My take is that what’s happening is the unbundling of binary gender, along lines that make nobody happy: trad or no grad, trans or cis, gay or straight, binary or fluid. So people are competing for “least frustrating rebundling” which is actually worse than just living unbundled
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This sign is more correct than it even intends to be I think, it unconsciously recognizes that the only component of identity that actually matters in a public bathroom is hygiene. Reminds me of the Igoe finger-eye being. johnnyholland.org/2009/01/how-do
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