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Wednesday, June 11, 2003

Sex eugenics

I have been thinking more and more about this binary sex - gender system our society has decided to embrace. I really feel that the idea that there are only two sexes and only two genders is the biggest propaganda
that has ever been brought to us. I want to concentrate on the idea of two sexes. What is interesting with this idea is that most people would say there are two sexes and they are biological. Genders on the other I would argue is more widly accepted that it can be socially constructed and that there are different ways to perform ones gender. The myth of the two sexes is one of the greatest lies that we have told our selves. In our moderist scientific world, we see the world in two sexes and therefor anyone that deviants from this norm must have a defect. This is the problem with modernism and science, it can only understnad things in the terms and structures it already has in place. They have create a catigory for those who don't fit neatly into this two-tier sex system. They are called intersexed. The idea is most people are born either male or female and there is a group of people that are beween the 2 sexes. They have "ambigious" genitalia. They have underdeveloped or overdeveloped genitalia. And are seen as having a birth defect.

I will have to look up the number of children that are catigorized in this way, but I will say confindently that there are more than you may think. So in our sceintific modern system we have two sexes, this is believed by the scientisits the doctor and the general population. Therefor when a child born with "abigious" genitalia, a panic sets in the doctors involved feal the nead to "fix" this child as soon as possible. The parents of this new born are told that their child has a birth defect and the doctors can fix it. The generally say it is easier to turn this child into a girl, the running joke being "its easier to make a hole then a pole". And the subsiquiently this child is then raised as a girl, often not feeling right in their own skin.

Other way of saying "ambigious" genitalia is to say that the child is born with a sex that is neither male or female, that they are indeed another sex altogether. It could be possible to have a child that can have three or four or seven different possiblities as the sex that they will be assigned. We could leave children allone and when they are more aware of their bodies and sleves they can decided where they feel they fit it. Basically in order to maintain a created distiction of two sexes, doctors are willing to mutilate new borns. The image that comes to mind in an assembly line, a baby pops out, the doctor has a look at it, it goes into the blue line or the pink line (becuase yes sex and gender are confused) if the doctor is havign a hard tiem disiffering what line the child should go into, the ego machine comes in. This machine keep the doctor ego intact that HE knows the difference between a boy and a girl, and this machine changes this child to fit into the ideal the doctor has in mind. Then everyone can take a freash breath of air because they were able to keep the assembly lines running. They fixed the mistake. This is why I say it is the hugest propaganda because the majority of people wouls see this situation as fixign a mistake. And rightly so considerign everything in our society reinforces the idea that there are only 2 sexes. The social construction is so think that it is seen as biological so.

It reminds me of Rabbit Proof fences, when the white men are saying that if you breed a "half breed" with a white for 3 generations they will become white again. Fixing the mistake of "ambigious" race. Reinforcing the idea that race is biological and not socially constructed. Maintaining a pure race. Its exactly what is happening. Sex eugenics through child mutilation and hormones is legal in order to ensure the maintance of a pure binary sex system.

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