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Transgender is yesterday's news: How companies are grappling with the 'no gender' society
Fortune Magazine ^
| 6/29/2015
| Vivian Giang
Posted on 06/30/2015 10:39:37 AM PDT by rbg81
Facebook now offers more than 50 ways for users to identify their gender. Says one exec, Gender neutral is kind of the new thing.
With Bruce Jenners transition to Caitlyn, transgender issues have become front and center in the mainstream cultural conversation. But among many young people, there is a much bigger conversation going on about gender. The whole notion of binary female and male gender norms is being seen as limiting, and unnecessary.
At elite liberal arts colleges like Vassar and Wesleyan, students have earnest conversations about gender being a social construct, and bathrooms are gender neutral, not co-ed. Some young people are defining their identity as gender fluid as have Orange is the New Black star Ruby Rose and pop singer Miley Cyrus. (People who are gender fluid may feel their gender identity is neither male nor female or switches back and forth between male and female.) The University of Vermont validated a third, gender neutral option and allows students to choose a new first name, regardless if the name has been legally changed, and chosen pronoun. (People who do not identify as male or female prefer the pronoun they, rather than he or she. )
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: business; gender; genderfluid; genderneutral
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It's getting to the point where everyday seems to bring another ??? moment. It seems to me the height of arrogant idiocy to pretend you can change gender. I guess it's all fun and games until some she-male tries to use the women's showers.
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posted on
06/30/2015 10:39:37 AM PDT
by
rbg81
To: rbg81
I “identify” as a unicorn.
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posted on
06/30/2015 10:41:32 AM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
(Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
To: rbg81
No individuality allowed.
We are all just numbers on an NSA server now.
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posted on
06/30/2015 10:41:39 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("One man with a gun can control a hundred without one." -- Vladimir Lenin)
To: rbg81
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posted on
06/30/2015 10:43:48 AM PDT
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: DungeonMaster
My dragon persona fries your unicorn persona! (haven’t played D&D in 25 years.)
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posted on
06/30/2015 10:45:46 AM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: DungeonMaster
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posted on
06/30/2015 10:46:09 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: DungeonMaster
I identify most of these people as idiots
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posted on
06/30/2015 10:47:20 AM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: driftdiver
Unicorns are asexual.Can't be -- look how horny they are.
Sorry ...
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posted on
06/30/2015 10:48:00 AM PDT
by
Fast Moving Angel
(It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
To: rbg81
No gender???? Please, how do I get off this crazy train?
To: rbg81
At elite liberal arts colleges like Vassar and Wesleyan, students have earnest conversations about gender being a social construct, and bathrooms are gender neutral, not co-ed. More evidence that Vassar and Wesleyan are lunatic asylums. This is like "grappling" with accommodating an employee who thinks he is Napoleon or Jesus Christ.
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posted on
06/30/2015 10:50:19 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: rbg81
Diversity through Conformity.
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posted on
06/30/2015 10:50:31 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: GreyFriar
My dragon persona fries your unicorn persona! (havent played D&D in 25 years.) Uh, your dragon can attempt to surprise my unicorn which is unlikely, then attack with a d20, then my sissy fa66ot unicorn gets a saving throw d20 and a supreme court decision.
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posted on
06/30/2015 10:50:33 AM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
(Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
To: driftdiver
Unicorns are asexual. You are misinformed. We, unicorns, simply do not talk about such things. Only monkeys and humans are obsessed with sex.
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posted on
06/30/2015 10:50:40 AM PDT
by
Greysard
To: bigbob
I identify most of these people as idiots LOL, I'm trying to picture the logo on the bathroom for said people.
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posted on
06/30/2015 10:51:44 AM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
(Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
To: bigbob
I identify most of these people as idiots
Problem is that no one has to courage to label them as such. They must be coddled and accommodated because judgement (common sense) of any kind is now mean and evil.
It’s just like in “The Emperor has No Clothes”
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posted on
06/30/2015 10:52:04 AM PDT
by
rbg81
To: Greysard
You aren’t a unicorn. You’ve just been in the porn again.
To: rbg81
It’s a medium for attention whores to get their fix. And when the novelty dies out ..........
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posted on
06/30/2015 10:52:21 AM PDT
by
LouAvul
(Liberalism: much more than just a mental illness)
To: DungeonMaster
I identify ALL of these people as idiots.
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posted on
06/30/2015 10:52:58 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
To: rbg81
Being a boy who likes girls has turned into The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name. I’m feeling oppressed here.
To: rbg81
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posted on
06/30/2015 10:53:43 AM PDT
by
brownsfan
(Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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