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Do You Really Think We'll Have Genders in the Future?

by blackhole on 1/19/25, 7:06 PM with 4 comments

• by spicyusername on 1/19/25, 10:46 PM

  If sex is the physical construct and gender is the social construct, seems reasonable to assume that both gender and transgenderism could disappear. One seems mostly like a reaction to the other and both may end up being cultural artifacts.

  I think the physical construct still has many millennia of evolution to go before we might see it disappear.

• by darthrupert on 1/19/25, 7:58 PM

  This seems like a vision of the future not far from how people in the 1950s pictured 2000s.

• by Terr_ on 1/19/25, 7:19 PM

  For a lot of this stuff, I find it helps to separate the concept from the implementation: Imagine how different current debates over transgender stuff would be if it was an atomically-perfect and reversible transformation done by benevolent genie.

  > when I see futurists or transhumanists talk about a timeline where humans are uploaded or become cyborgs or whatever, and then they turn around and say stuff like “feminism is bad”, I am utterly baffled.

  I think some of them really just want to live forever in a conventionally beautiful body with superpowers.

  Sure, Chad Jockson III might temporarily transmit his mind at light speed to Alpha Centauri, but when he gets there he expects to re-inhabit a pretty-similar body.

• by Frederation on 1/19/25, 10:47 PM

  Nope. All of our genitals will turn into vestigial organs, shrink and crawl back into our abdominal cavity. You will wear a tattoo on your forhead that designates your Societal Gender Classification (SGC).

  All hail Hydra.