Saturday, December 23, 2006

Gender Bender

Continuing on the gender issues…reading about the failed sex tests in this years Doha games got me thinking... is gender becoming irrelevant in today’s day and age? How can a sex test go wrong?

Gender is not a drug that if you don’t take 3 hours before the test, you can be female negative or male positive! Last time I checked, we were born with it, and there was nothing we could do about it…

Maybe the artist previously known as Prince is the only one in the world who has got it right! He claims to be neither man nor woman and has changed his name to a SYMBOL, a symbol that combines the biological signs for a man (circle with an arrow) and a woman (circle with a mirror). And maybe Michael Jackson too is on the right path of androgynous wisdom…

A man will always be attracted to a woman. This ensures the long term survival of the species. But in a time of population explosion, procreation alone is no longer a necessity for mating. When cloning is questioning the very existence of gender difference, are we headed for a gender neutral society?

In a world where increasingly, it is becoming difficult to tell the gender of a person on the street, is unisex going beyond just clothes? Is it becoming another personality type?