When I was a child I was always potentially afraid of other boys, but I was never afraid of a girl. It is also true that I have been bullied by many boys, but never by a girl. I have seen many girl bullies bullying other girls though, so it is all the same isn't it. In my adult life I have witnessed bullies of both sexes, and they were bullying males and females without discrimination.
Brute force is the law, how big you are, how powerful you are, you are the winner, you are the leader. In politics, in the work environment, in any couple, the one who runs the house is often the most intelligent one, the one being the most knowledgeable, or even often the most physically powerful one capable of intimidating the others. Who can shout the loudest around here? Could be a man or a woman.
So where does this lead to, these simple observations about sexes? Women in the world still have a long way to go, because globally they are still way behind men when comes the time for emancipation, human rights and power. What women have gain today in the West, just like for gay rights, they could easily lose again eventually.
When it comes to human rights it is never forever granted, it is only always on loan, and stripped away as soon as some bullies see an opportunity to do so. It is a constant battle. Women are usually more religious than men, and yet, religion is very much for reiterating women as what is called, in religious terms, the weaker sex. Fighting religion might be a starting point for women to gain more rights, just as it is for gay people.
I find it weird that there are two sexes in this world. I cannot explain why there was a need for two sexes for procreation to exist, whether there was a creation or an evolution, or both. I am puzzled by the idea that sexes could be considered not equaled just because one sex can be more physically threatening than the other. I am surprised women worldwide are still struggling hard to gain any sort of rights.
I cannot explain why I am gay, attracted to the same sex as mine, though I know I was born that way and science at least appears to have verified that point. It seems natural, since in the animal kingdom homosexuality is also common. Perhaps it is just one more way of controlling the overpopulation, by having a certain percentage attracted only to the same sex.
These biological functions that caused me so much trouble in my youth, and still today. Sometimes I wish there were no sexes, males or females or gay people or transgenders. How nice would that be? No discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation. No half of the population serving as slave to the other half for centuries. No sex and all the related problems that these out of control biological and sexual urges can cause.
Imagine a world without gender or sex. Just all the same sort, all identical, all capable of self-reproducing without the need from someone of the opposite sex. I wonder what kind of world that would be. Like a world where everyone would be the same color. Why not be multi-colors, as many colors as certain animal species are, like marine fish and birds for example? If humans were all identical there would be no racial problem. A world without discrimination. That would be something worth living for, or would it?
We would all be the same, conformists to the max. I don't know about you, but I like my aquarium to reflect all the colors the human eye can see. Everyone just love a universal rainbow flag crossing all boundaries and all nationalities, right? Or are you color blind? Black has always been my favorite color, many cannot see the black color, I've always wondered why, it makes absolutely no sense does it?
With no sexes, no different races based on skin color, we would only have to deal with the other sorts of discrimination. For example, are you stronger or weaker than I am? Were you born here or there? Are you more or less intelligent than me? How rich and powerful is your family? How beautiful and young are you?
I guess there will always be discrimination for as long as we can compare ourselves to others. I wonder if nature could have done it right no matter what it could have come up with. But two sexes was definitely a mistake, an obvious one at that, unless the only reason was to limit the reproduction process somehow so we do not take over the universe any time soon. For the overpopulated planet however, I'm afraid it is too late.
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"Without irony, this life would hardly be worth living."
Roland Michel Tremblay
http://www.themarginal.com/destructivism.pdf
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