Aspi moment... "Gender is a spectrum" is Theory growing significantly and beginning to gain some scientific validity. In my lovely Aspiness I stated it as an out and out fact... As it is in my lovely little black and white world where everything is as it should be (LOL).

Culturally, especially given the diversity of cultures represented here, that is not yet recognized as fact. And in previous generations there is no way in h*** that would fly. A great deal off effort has been taken in society to make "male" and "female" two distinct groups. You can't go down the main isle of a toy store or toy section of a major store without seeing the clear "color coding" of the isles.

One of the huge blessings for me in growing up Aspi is that lables didn't make sence to me so I just threw them out. I didn't get racism because there were two many shades of skin color for me to create distinct categories. I didn't understand socio economic status because again there was such a range of how much people had and what they saw as valuable. Gender was no different. Ageism didn't fly either (AKA no respect for people who had lived longer than I had but who had not demonstraited anything "worthy" of my respect). Admittedly this got me into lots of hot water but I wish everyone could grow up that "blind". I believe we are all born that "blind" but before we even learn words we start catagorizing people based on the culture we are emersed in.