24-10-2015, 03:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 24-10-2015, 03:35 PM by jamiemason.)
I don't think we'll ever have true 'equality.' I don't mean to be a booger, but equal and fair are 'feel good' words and something meant for mainstream media and political parties.
Until we remove stereotypes from society - IE, men are strong, woman are docile, gender roles, and things of that nature, we are always going to have a divide about what people are 'assigned' to be simply based on their sex.
On the other side, it's easier for cis females to associate with male clothing wear, and society think nothing. But for a cis male to wear a skirt or hip huggers shorts, then the stereotypes, stares, and bigotry is seen.
We are a world of entitlement. We are entitled to think and make choices to live daily life and make decisions, until those acts effect the ideals of someone else. Then the debate of right and wrong, sick or perverse, moral and immoral start. Fair, free thinking, and equality, are dismissed simply over an immoral concept or debate with ignorant and closed minded people.
I have equated the Gay Rights and Transgender Movements that's been started in the country over the last decade to those of the Civil Rights Movements of the 1960's. The hate crimes that happened then to African Americans are eerily similar to those that happen today to trans and gay/lesbians.
The cycle is still here.
Will we see full acceptance? Only time will tell.
But as Dr. King would say religiously, 'there is hope.'
Until we remove stereotypes from society - IE, men are strong, woman are docile, gender roles, and things of that nature, we are always going to have a divide about what people are 'assigned' to be simply based on their sex.
On the other side, it's easier for cis females to associate with male clothing wear, and society think nothing. But for a cis male to wear a skirt or hip huggers shorts, then the stereotypes, stares, and bigotry is seen.
We are a world of entitlement. We are entitled to think and make choices to live daily life and make decisions, until those acts effect the ideals of someone else. Then the debate of right and wrong, sick or perverse, moral and immoral start. Fair, free thinking, and equality, are dismissed simply over an immoral concept or debate with ignorant and closed minded people.
I have equated the Gay Rights and Transgender Movements that's been started in the country over the last decade to those of the Civil Rights Movements of the 1960's. The hate crimes that happened then to African Americans are eerily similar to those that happen today to trans and gay/lesbians.
The cycle is still here.
Will we see full acceptance? Only time will tell.
But as Dr. King would say religiously, 'there is hope.'