Bowie spent much of his career in a variety of androgynous presentations. With gender being an outward presentation rather than a biological definition, it can be as fluid as the individual wants it to be. Remember that not even biological sex is a binary there are intersex people and people with a variety of different chromosomal differences that put them outside of that binary. Gender when viewed as a binary is a limiting and constraining factor on millions of people. Perhaps the best thing you can do to adapt your communication to a more modern understanding of gender is simply to understand why it’s important. A majority of the millennial generation agrees that gender is a spectrum, and 12% of millennials identify as either transgender or gender non-conforming.Įssentially, the idea of a gender binary is on its way out with the younger generations, so effective communication with those generations will need to understand that. What is changing today is public acceptance of the reality of this situation. There are hundreds of mentions throughout history of women living as men, men living as women, and people who didn’t quite fit either definition.
The fact is, times are changing, and yet the situation isn’t necessarily any different. All I’m saying is that there’s not really any such thing as “politically correct” as it is currently used. Now, I’m not saying that just because you think something is too PC, you’re automatically a nazi, or any other extreme assumption like that. The same kind of rhetoric is used in support of white nationalism and other racist ideologies. Calling something politically correct is a way of downplaying the importance of that thing to the people who are affected by it. The very idea of political correctness is itself a form of oppressive language. The idea is that some small but vocal group of people is somehow enforcing their idea of gender on the wider population when somehow it really doesn’t matter to most. One of the most common arguments against using gender-neutral language is that it’s somehow “political correctness gone wild”. Related posts: Forget Political Correctness
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