Deus Ex Bionica

if we are going to have gender as a fundamental organizing structure of society, it is ethical to give people exit rights from their gender and allow them to choose another one which suits. this is a basic right of self-determination. 

Like… think about the social model of disability for a second. You have people who are disabled and, say, need to use a wheelchair to get around but they can’t because everyone insists on building stairs everywhere because the vast majority of people are just fine navigating steps. Except for the people who can’t who are turned into second-class citizens.

Now, if everyone used wheelchairs everything would be ramps and using that chair would no longer be an actual disability because the world would be made in order to accommodate it.

Anyway, people talk a big talk about how this is totally different because wheelchairs are for addressing a physical limitation. Except, it’s not, really, because the human body can’t really tolerate anything cooler than the tropics at night without getting awfully uncomfortable without wearing clothes.

Without clothes human beings wouldn’t be able to inhabit 90% of the places we do but we can because we all wear our little fur prosthetics and live in a culture that accommodates and supports the use of those prosthetics (laundromats, closets, ect…) so we don’t even notice that we have these limitations until we forget to wear our clothes when we leave the house.

Theoretical physicist Brian Greene on why the sciences and the humanities are kindred spirits.