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I read your post before it was flagged. Have you ever played Civ: Beyond Earth? You're like the Purity faction, who bends all new technology around human whims

I read your post before it was flagged. Have you ever played Civ: Beyond Earth? You're like the Purity faction, who bends all new technology around human whims and limitations (dome cities, big anthropomorphic mechs), solving the issue by segregating genders into silos where their whims and limitations are directly catered to. There's two other factions in the game, Supremacy and Harmony, both of which are transhuman, who transcend their human whims and limitations and exploit and adapt to new technologies on the technologies' novel terms. Purity is comfier and easier, but I think it's a net retardation of growth and development. (It's certainly a regression in terms of liberal egalitarianism.) That future is stagnation. Transcendence is the key. We should all become third gender. (Just kidding. I had nothing else to end with. By the way, your emphasis on "third gender" is pretty unusual to me. Do you mean non-binary people? Or are you using it as some TERFy catch-all for trans people? :p)

NoRagrets 5y ago
Sorry. I don’t know but will look into it. Although I do subscribe to transhumanism philosophy IRL. But there are all flavours of transhumanists. We don’t all agree with each other. Third gender is the term used in India for transgender. They are a very visible group with their third gender identity for centuries now and are part of our societies. They are recognized and it is important to recognize third gender as a category so they don’t feel the need to identify with the biological genders. It is a failure of western society that they haven’t been recognized as non-binary and hence rendered invisible.
- shrimp_emoji 5y ago
  >Third gender is the term used in India for transgender. Aaaah. That makes sense. The reason that was unusual to me was because, in the West, currently, the prevailing view/jargon is that there's genders, and each gender can be "cis" or "trans". More controversially, there are also non-binary people, who may report no gender, a mix of genders, or a gender other than "man"/"woman". That would be your usage of "third gender".
  - jelliclesfarm 5y ago
    Right. For many non-western people, ‘cisgender’ is a made up western term. There has always been non binary and transgender in different cultures around the world. In my culture, there are two genders(not ‘cis’..what does it even mean?) and then there is the third gender. In Hindu puranas, there are many gods we worship who are of two genders, transgender and then there is the father of Ganga(the holiest River of Hinduism) who was born to two women. Here is ..provided with much reservations…a generic search result link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_themes_in_Hindu_mythology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_themes_in_Hindu_mytholo... ..I reject all western interpretations and ‘scholarly work’ and have a dim view of western style psychoanalysis of my gods and culture. But it works..as a list.

NoRagrets 5y ago

Sorry. I don’t know but will look into it. Although I do subscribe to transhumanism philosophy IRL. But there are all flavours of transhumanists. We don’t all agree with each other. Third gender is the term used in India for transgender. They are a very visible group with their third gender identity for centuries now and are part of our societies. They are recognized and it is important to recognize third gender as a category so they don’t feel the need to identify with the biological genders. It is a failure of western society that they haven’t been recognized as non-binary and hence rendered invisible.

shrimp_emoji 5y ago
>Third gender is the term used in India for transgender. Aaaah. That makes sense. The reason that was unusual to me was because, in the West, currently, the prevailing view/jargon is that there's genders, and each gender can be "cis" or "trans". More controversially, there are also non-binary people, who may report no gender, a mix of genders, or a gender other than "man"/"woman". That would be your usage of "third gender".
- jelliclesfarm 5y ago
  Right. For many non-western people, ‘cisgender’ is a made up western term. There has always been non binary and transgender in different cultures around the world. In my culture, there are two genders(not ‘cis’..what does it even mean?) and then there is the third gender. In Hindu puranas, there are many gods we worship who are of two genders, transgender and then there is the father of Ganga(the holiest River of Hinduism) who was born to two women. Here is ..provided with much reservations…a generic search result link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_themes_in_Hindu_mythology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_themes_in_Hindu_mytholo... ..I reject all western interpretations and ‘scholarly work’ and have a dim view of western style psychoanalysis of my gods and culture. But it works..as a list.