The Importance Of Genderless Society

While my train of thought might sound as a much more radical extension of Spivak’s views, she does address the idea of eradicating all borders. The reason for this is that borders inhibit one’s desires as we are taught to conform to the expected behaviors and associated pleasures of our gendered selves. For this reason, the “imagination is trained to shift desires,” meaning there needs to be a balance of attending and respecting the borders of the permeable body. Moreover, in the long-term, “borderlessness is associated with pleasure,” so although complying with gendered stigmas might keep one safe, it is ultimately a self-imposed inhibition of desire. There needn’t be a repression if there was a shifting of norms and we were taught that

This is the ideal genderless society I imagine, in which there are no preconceptions concerning one’s gendered or sexual being. Spivak agrees with this perception, as gender is “at the base of the formation of every society as a system of internalized rules.” Could these rules be eradicated? In modern society, different sexual orientations and identifications have become gradually more accepted by the public; there are multiple figures of pop culture that speak about sexual ambiguity. Miley Cyrus, for example, identifies as gender fluid, which refers to a gender that varies over time, be it male, female, or some other non-binary identity. In a sense, this is the total disregard of society’s gender expectations and Miley is often perceived as being wildly controversial. This means that people are still at a loss of how to interpret gender and sexual

We need to establish a life on the margins of social norms, in which we identify an explicit difference between sex and gender and how the two are mutually exclusive. Sexual orientation should not be bordered or entrenched, as it has nothing to do with one’s gender or identity. The way to combat gendered stigmas in the long term is to attack the problem at its root; teach children that there is no inherent difference between people of different sexual or gendered identities. Spivak has established that the gendered self is the first insight a person obtains about oneself. For this reason, I don’t mean to eradicate all notions of gender, simply an implementation of awareness of our borders and the fact that they are compliant to our own feelings and