23-05-2014, 10:42 PM
I just wonder whether, at times, we just try to rationalise all this a bit too much...
I guess for all of us, we are to some extent making decisions about our futures and how anything we might do will impact on others - but, speaking personally, I don't give a lot of weight to any of this. I think attempting to form an absolute rationalised view of what I am doing to myself and more importantly 'why' , speaking personally, is nigh on impossible. I am just doing what seems right on the day.
There are many things which change our own perception of ourselves - some of which we in control of (which we may or may not decide to exercise control over) and many of which we are not.
I think I would have to question whether NBE would, of itself, cause anyone to change gender identity, having said that, I don't really know. Personally, I regularly query why I am playing in this fire. I know the likelihood is that I will get burned - but, for now, I am enjoying the ride.
Am I becoming female? I don't know. I actually don't know what 'more female' means. There are female caricatures which we seem to be the goal of a number of folk here - but I see the gender issue as more of a sliding scale with fully male at one end and fully female at the other - but this, in itself raises a huge problem - there are females with very male characteristics and vica versa - so how do we define male and female biologically, behaviourally or emotionally - the more I consider it, the more confused I become!!!!!
So, my answer is probably that I think NBE can just muddy the water still further!!, people who play with NBE are probably sitting on a gender fence, those who pursue NBE with the goal of swapping gender have already cast their vote.
Having said that, will those who 'play with NBE' come to question their genetic ID - maybe - I would suggest that suddenly running one's system on a prevalence of E rather than T will inevitably have consequences - but probably, eventually, ones innate character will appear - be that fully male, female or maybe just somewhere, possibly changing, between.
M x
I guess for all of us, we are to some extent making decisions about our futures and how anything we might do will impact on others - but, speaking personally, I don't give a lot of weight to any of this. I think attempting to form an absolute rationalised view of what I am doing to myself and more importantly 'why' , speaking personally, is nigh on impossible. I am just doing what seems right on the day.
There are many things which change our own perception of ourselves - some of which we in control of (which we may or may not decide to exercise control over) and many of which we are not.
I think I would have to question whether NBE would, of itself, cause anyone to change gender identity, having said that, I don't really know. Personally, I regularly query why I am playing in this fire. I know the likelihood is that I will get burned - but, for now, I am enjoying the ride.
Am I becoming female? I don't know. I actually don't know what 'more female' means. There are female caricatures which we seem to be the goal of a number of folk here - but I see the gender issue as more of a sliding scale with fully male at one end and fully female at the other - but this, in itself raises a huge problem - there are females with very male characteristics and vica versa - so how do we define male and female biologically, behaviourally or emotionally - the more I consider it, the more confused I become!!!!!
So, my answer is probably that I think NBE can just muddy the water still further!!, people who play with NBE are probably sitting on a gender fence, those who pursue NBE with the goal of swapping gender have already cast their vote.
Having said that, will those who 'play with NBE' come to question their genetic ID - maybe - I would suggest that suddenly running one's system on a prevalence of E rather than T will inevitably have consequences - but probably, eventually, ones innate character will appear - be that fully male, female or maybe just somewhere, possibly changing, between.
M x