Comments on: Gender matters

By: Lucifer Benway

Lucifer Benway — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:08:58 +0000

For most the 6 o’clock news represents “reality”

By: Fell

Fell — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 20:21:46 +0000

You can play poetics if you so desire. But any argument dismissing gender in the manifest realm (physiologically, genetically, spiritually, or mentally) would be shere nonsense. I am aware of transgenderism and the whole aboriginal notion of Two-Spirits. GPO may do what he pleases. Marilyn Manson pursued the same message with Mechanical Animals. It is probably possible to find an absolute balance between the forces of intentionality and resonance, as the Wired article puts it. From my readings, that is my perfect understanding of a magus. But for most, gender is an accepted trait of life.

By: Lucifer Benway

Lucifer Benway — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:52:01 +0000

Reactionary attitudes toward gender among people who supposedly know better never ceases to amaze me. Clearly binary gender distinctions form a fantasy-narrative not unlike democracy. This seems the type of thing which defies explanation to me. Also, I find it illustrative that I’ve heard D Limey’s comment about a hundred times- as if the sheer assertion of transgendered persons formed the bulk of evidence against binary gender distinctions.

If an old acid head like GPO can get this why young people can’t seems beyond me.

By: L.

L. — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 06:17:52 +0000

although i suspect that these things might also vary greatly with different personality types, i can only vouch for myself as a female and for me what (temporarily) put me off pursuing further into mystic/occult practices was *precisely* this intense fear…
-L.

By: d limey

d limey — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:13:45 +0000

Just because one believes that binary gender distinction is of little use in the 21st century, doesn’t make it so. And saying that it is, is counter initiatory propoganda.

By: Fell

Fell — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:26:51 +0000

I can’t debate whether it has to do with biological sex or if if its phenomena is rooted in social constructionism and the consequent shaping of conscience in the individuals therein.

On a more basic, personal level, I just mean men and women.

By: Lucifer Benway

Lucifer Benway — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:53:18 +0000

What do we mean by “men” and “women.” Keep in mind that the binary gender distinction seems of little use in the 21st century, even if Princeton doesn’t.