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50 shades of gender: yes to a true confrontation, no to victimized narcissism and hysterical aggression

First they cry because they don't feel what they are. Then they cry because, having corrected themselves with chemistry and surgery, they don't feel what they are. They cry anyway, like Bertoldo with the weather. And society keeps them, spoils them, pampers them as princes of existential doubt. They become adults and, instead of growing up, they continue to cry on each other in a triumph of victimistic narcissism, as to say the escape from all responsibility: only I exist, with my self-reported dramas, my gossip, my tears, only I exist, leave me stay, do not charge me, instead give me, give me, listen to me, give me what I ask even if I don't know what I want.

On the Tinder platform 29 shades of gender , which frankly seem too many even for a missionary of uncertainty. But those who are there define themselves as follows: “If there were a thin line connecting the two sexes, I would be a point that fluctuates somewhere between the extremes, but not necessarily linked to it. It's the only way I can describe how I feel ”. Difficult to be more vague, more fabulous. But you have to take everything seriously and not ask questions, in America those who try are out, like that professor at Duke University who dared to make fun of the sexual polymorphy that foresees the following distinctions: androgynous, non-binary, fluid , homosexual, bisexual, pansexual , asexual, uncertain. They look like the flavors of ice cream, they are humanity's. And if you do not orient yourself in this Babel of genres and subgenres that provide rules that are unworkable for society, you are finished.

And they are, unworkable. Because if the principle passes that one is how one feels, with license tomorrow to feel the opposite of today, and always to feel sorry for oneself and to regret, how does a company provide for real rights, real needs? If we leave the sexual dimension or, as Luxuria points out, erotic and pretend to feel now Picasso, now head of state, are we entitled to a quote for a crust or a presidential annuity? The differently tolerant at this point lose their temper: do not provoke, do not say nonsense. But if they are nonsense, they are ab ovo , they descend from a logical defect and there is no beard of the law that holds. Except that pointing it out is like when you tell the mad that they can't fly.

In Mexico 18 males apply for the pink quotas and the judges satisfy them, in Canada male prisoners who feel they are females are transferred to a women's prison where they rape the inmates, in Tokyo a weightlifter who perceives himself as “pink” wins the competition female. One wonders how does a company, any company, function in such a chaos? When you find it decided by improbable, immature pulpits, that vehicles with manual gearbox "are an indication of toxic masculinity", how do you think, argue? We are in the society of uncertainty, not knowing who one is, that is, what one wants and how one can contribute to the difficult and exalting journey of humanity, is considered virtuous, if one definitively perceives oneself for what one is, falls from grace monster. In the sign of inclusion, egalitarian law is concerned only with oneself, with one's own confused impulses.

But if perceptions can be fluid, the prescriptions of an organized minority cannot and overturn the way in which a community has always mirrored itself: today, and it is understood in a completely analytical way, being sexually possible is a winner, the homosexual or lesbian witch it is no longer there and if it exists it is as a testimonial, an icon of reference for a rewritten world of consumption and business as well as ways of being and living. Being indefinite is a fashion and to some extent a Pavlovian impulse. But let's also say that the world does not stop spinning and the wise must adapt, let's say that despair or entrenchment is useless and is to a large extent wrong; let's say that dealing with new dimensions and even new styles is right and healthy: excellent TV series arrive from America, where all the alleged minorities, now former minorities, are meticulously represented both in a racial and sexual sense: happy homosexual families with children load; and who can exclude that two people with their heads on their shoulders are not much better parents than a regular, traditional father and mother, but projected into deception and mutual hatred?

But let us also be allowed a true confrontation, not a systematic hysterical aggression; we are allowed not to like the practice of the uterus Postal Market , it is legitimate to observe that, to say, in Italy the practice of adoptions is still exclusionary, limited to the traditional family scheme for wealthy individuals, able to support the various institutional junctions for who go through an interminable process; Wouldn't adopting be better than buying a fetus, a uterus? We are also left with the possibility of raising the eyebrow towards a range of identities that are entirely imaginary and functional only to the egocentric perception of oneself. Perhaps it is precisely these lifelong uncertainties who harbor a problem of definition: by dint of perceiving all the others badly, of considering all enemies regardless, they do not perceive themselves for who they are. Overbearing. Intolerant. Violent, of the violence of the weak, of the capricious.

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