普段着はズボン派？スカート派？
▼本日限定！ブログスタンプ
ロスアンゼルスにある
「寛容の博物館」という所には
「偏見を持つ人のドア」と
「偏見のない人のドア」の
２つの入口があるそうです。
あなたはどちらから入りますか？
Am I a pants person or a skirt person for everyday wear?
I'm a man, so naturally, I'm a pants person!
...is what I might say.
But why 'naturally'?
Even if one's body is male, they might identify as female!
In that case, wearing a skirt is also possible. Saying 'naturally' denies the existence of such people!
Wait a minute. 🫷
Even if one's physical form and gender identity are male, there are those who enjoy cross-dressing as a hobby.
Saying that men don't wear skirts is also a prejudice!
I remember hearing somewhere that the more a workplace emphasizes masculinity, like the military, the more likely it is for people to take up cross-dressing as a hobby to escape that pressure. That made sense to me.
Wait a minute.
🫷
It's not strange at all for women to only wear pants!
Wait a minute. 🫷
I could go on with various complaints and objections, but there's no end to that, so I'll stop here.
Even such a trivial question can potentially make enemies of people all over the world depending on how it's answered.
It's ridiculous and unbearable.
If that's the case, then I shouldn't have answered in the first place, right?
There will undoubtedly be people who criticize that.
Yes, you are correct!
Maybe the reason we inadvertently express prejudices like 'because I'm a man...' or 'because she's a woman...' is because of the overwhelmingly long period of primitive life like the Jomon period?
Back then, only strong men could hunt because tools were undeveloped.
Women were entrusted with gathering nuts and berries. Food was hard to come by, and the threat of starvation was always present, so the roles of men and women had to be clearly defined, or else they risked extinction.
That's why there were no people who looked like men but said they were women inside. Such times lasted for over ten thousand years. It accounts for over 90% of human history.
The term 'gender identity' has only come about very recently. If human history were condensed into one day, it would be around 23:59.
It seems quite difficult to eradicate one's own prejudices.
By the way, there's a place in Los Angeles called
'The Museum of Tolerance' that has
two entrances:
one for 'people with prejudice' and
one for 'people without prejudice'.
Which one would you enter through?
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