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Date: 2006-02-17 07:54 am (UTC)While I understand your viewpoint on that option, I want the ability and right to apply that option to myself. I may not make that choice, but I want the option.
elfs said in a Pendor story: For the rest of us, thanks to robotics and AIs, women are as free as men and gender's only role these days is as color and spice and all its wonderful aspects, not its tragic ones.
What I really want is the freedom to decide to change gender; we have that in a limited way now, but my imagination leaps forward to nano-machines that make an X chromosome all introns and synthetically generate a Y chromosome or can duplicate an X chromosome and make a Y chromosome all introns. Or if a person doesn't want to retain the data for reversion internally, just make something indistinguishable at all levels from someone who was born the person's current gender. Even with the current poor kludges, I've considered gender reassignment, but that and the cost are major factors in asking do I really want to spend the necessary resources on that.
shastaw said: You're thinking about this ALL WRONG. We don't need neuter - we need interchangeable hot-swap accessories...I'm SO there! [humming detachable penis...]
I've not thought of that until you just mentioned that -- neuter with the ability to hook either set of appliances to the nervous system; now that is cute -- and perhaps I should have after reading about Misuko's toy in Elf's Honest Question. Though, it's not quite the same.
elfs said: There is also a line of thought in the Singularity movement that seeks to ban ... [even some modes of thought].
There is a quote that stuck in my head as soon as I read it and has never left: "Censorship is a lot like poison gas. It seems like a great weapon to use against the enemy, but the winds have a way of shifting." Unfortunately, I have forgotten who it was attributed to or even if the quote was attributed at all.