Are you post-gender?

Question

Are you likely to ignore a person's gender?

Answer 1

That sounds about right, yes. I don't see anything wrong with girly girls and manly men, but I relate best to people who are more mentally androgynous. Because of that, my circle of friends is pretty mixed, and I tend to think of them all as just people rather than men and women.

Answer 2

Well, I am assuming that for the purposes of this question you are not drawing a clear line between s*x and gender.

That being said:

It depends on what you mean. For instance I try to choose pronouns based on how a person present their gender to me so as to be polite. But I try not to use gender to make decisions where gender doesn't really matter.

Personally, I really do see gender as an artificial social construct. And as far as s*x goes, there as at least 7 ways to biologically assign people to either male or female, and these different methods often disagree.

Other than achieving social etiquette, the only time I care about other people's genitalia or their personal gender roles is when I'm thinking of dating them. Other than that, it's none of my business.

Answer 3

No. Be it good or bad, I like to know their gender.

Answer 4

I have a near policy of deliberately being not 'post-anything'. The reason being that 'post' as prefix generally tends to have no real meaning where it gets used.

Only  with the greatest deliberate act of will could I ignore a person's gender, or s*x. It's unnatural not to see it. How I judge people or see people has probably changed for the better over time, but I wouldn't call it post-gender.

Answer 5

As long as another person has a c**k, i'm going to call him a  man.

Answer 6

Gosh I wish! The world would actually be a wonderful magical place to live!

Answer 7

I don't know how to ignore someone's gender.  If it's unclear, I wouldn't be rude about it, but I would be a bit uncomfortable.

Answer 8

Ah that is a very good word for it. Yes I am, my husband and I don't believe in gender differences. Everyone is an individual and there isn't ONE personality trait that every single man has in common or every single woman.

People should just be themselves and not swayed by society or whoever in trying to be something they aren't or living up to a sterotype. For example, the rubbish of women being bad drivers are drummed into us, so maybe when I woman learns to drive she epects failiure and is more careful and nervous. Thus living up to the sterotype.

Answer 9

Absolutely!  In fact, I try not to post as a gender either...unless the question requires it...

Answer 10

I ignore everyone's "gender" concept of themselves but my own.  For example, although I am heterosexual and not at all interested in s*x with a woman, I do enjoy "dating"and traveling with my L*****n friends, my homosexual male friends, my heterosexual friends, my friends in wheelchairs, my friends who are getting s*x changes, etc. The man I've been the closet to this last decade, my "family",  is actually g*y.  I suspect he's even a closet pedophile (I say that tongue-in-cheek) based on his p**n hits on the Internet.  s*x is s*x.  Love is love.  And gender is fictitious.

Answer 11

Not really.  It's hard to ignore that somebody is a man or a woman.  I don't normally judge a person based on how they live in "gender roles" though, if that's what you mean.

Answer 12

what are we talking about? history, science, politics gender isn't an issue...

how about Labor?

what it's a valid point.....you dont have a mechanic do your heart surgery.

Answer 13

Haha yeah. I've emailed tons of people only to go..."whoa, you're a chick/dude? no way!"

Answer 14

You mean their s*x?