Why women shouldn’t be hidden in “gender identities”
I confess that I cultivate the pride of being born male, that is of my biological sex, with that much of misogynism due to the purchase of a cultural heritage, mainly literary and artistic but not only, built over a few millennia almost exclusively by men , but for this very reason extremely dependent on women, without any aggressive drive, but rather an insatiable curiosity, far from being exhausted in a purely erotic attraction. Once Alberoni, then rector of the Higher Institute of Social Sciences of Trento, told me that women are frightened by giving birth to sons; to which I objected that male children are fooled by being delivered to female mothers. Having done the analysis, I have nothing to say about the first statement, but a lot about the second, because it largely depends on what the relationship with the other sex will be, however, to take them both for granted, it follows that the problem is poses very precociously, so as to require a change forced to modify a deep-rooted modification of extremely possessive maternal impulses towards boys.
Regardless of the trite accusation made against the male gender of cultivating a patriarchal culture, obsolete and discriminatory, of which, moreover, the commandment "women and children first" would also be an expression, which is not for nothing full confirmation in the proud defense of Ukrainian independence, where fathers accompany their families to the borders, then return to fight; there is no reason to ignore the persistence of a gender-related gap to be overcome by a decisive promotion policy, from the provision of scholarships and privileged paths for Stem curricula up to 'pink quotas' in the distribution of top positions, without forget at all the persistent difficulty in reconciling motherhood and work activities.
Only this policy of female emancipation, whose purpose is destined to find an ever wider declination, now seems to be absorbed and weakened by the policy of inclusion, where the female component is drowned by reason of a substitution of female by gender, dilated not only to all possible variants of sexual orientation and behavior, but also with the expression 'fluid sex' or, even further, "perceived sex", up to an unstable and subjective datum, which is constituted in the extreme by the as one it is perceived moment by moment. After that the female sex, the menstruating and reproductive one, remains devoid of its biological element which has been the underlying reason for the centuries-old discriminatory process, as well as the collective identity profile of feminist organizations and battles. Consequently, the same can be said of the other great anti-discrimination movement, the homosexual one, which, without absolutely denying the biological difference, has made it the basis for claiming the erotic relationship between people of the same sex, in consonance with the cultural overcoming of the sex in reproductive function, now cultivated among the same heterosexuals.
However, it is one thing to talk about anti-discrimination policy and another completely different one about promotional policy, as the same difference between the two conditions equally linked to biological sex explains well, for women we must go beyond the first, for a full explanation of the second. that is promotion, while for homosexuals we stop at the second, that is anti-discrimination. What is true for homosexuals is also true for all variants constructed regardless of biological sex, so that within a constitutionally updated notion of public health it is possible to require medical and psychological assistance for transition paths, as well as an adequate to point of services.
It may be that I am conditioned by my being male, born in the late 30s, therefore rooted in that culture negatively labeled as patriarchal, which, moreover, educated to a total abstinence from any physical or moral aggression towards women, but I think that little thing can be squeezed out of past history, however laudable the tendency to recover female names which have been denied the fullness of memory they deserved, giving them full visibility starting with the city streets.
The game is played on the future, but fully reclaiming one's sex, as a basic element of universal identity, in a dynamic but not antagonistic contrast to what, in reverse, has become the other half of the sky. The woman has no advantage, indeed only a harm to being concealed in a gender identity, in which there is no positive identity, which on the contrary ends up having only a negative identity, which in the daily controversy seems to translate in a composite and heterogeneous great alliance against the other sex, which the woman instead needs to have as a companion, certainly in her sentimental and erotic life, but also in the redemption from a condition of psychological and socio-economic inferiority. Like all true revolutions take place much earlier in the private than in the public, confined only here they are much more apparent than real; in the private sector, however you turn it around, the cradle of an equal education remains the family, because the bet is all in the passage of generations, this happens with a mother and a father, the school counts, but it comes when the part of the game is more decisive has already been carried out.
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