Dilution (and cancellation?) of gender differences.

The recognition of a wider range of gender identities causes a loss of distinction between the traditional genders of man and woman.

Illustration by Tjeerd Royaards to respond to a member of the jury of a competition who wondered why all the cartoon journalists are men. [article by Gabriele Romano]

As soon as I saw the image it immediately made me think…Although it was created for a different purpose, it is also exceptionally valid for a theme that came to mind:the difference between sexual genders in the modern era.From this point of view the illustration is emblematic, that is, the total cancellation of the distinctive values ​​between men and women due to the recognition of a wider range of gender identities.This is a phenomenon explained by the name of dilution of gender differences.Obviously this phenomenon also depends on other factors such as social expectations and family roles, education, clothing and fashion, work roles, the media etc.There is no doubt, however, that the acceptance of different gender identities and sexual orientations is increasingly influencing, hiding the gender binary (male/female) which is increasingly being questioned.

Does it seem normal to you that a progress of inclusion should cancel out the differences of binarism?I have always been of the opinion that chronological (and sequential) progress does not coincide with social and human progress.This inevitably means that as time passes we don’t necessarily have to recognize all the possible and imaginable genres, otherwise we would find ourselves having to deal with such a quantity of genres that not even a dictionary would be enough.Growing up I learned to hate, at least in Italy, both the right and the left. Each of these positions clashes with a banal inclusion-non-inclusion dualism, as if there was no middle ground that builds a value for which to fight indiscriminately without a political and ideological color but only through reason and (perhaps) lighting.

[article by Gabriele Romano]

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