hm, I guess I’ve been socialized to think it’s normal … in some obvious sense it’s weird, but no more weird than us thinking of pets as morally the same as humans, for example - we anthropomorphize and project things onto objects and animals that aren’t there, we read intention where there is none, etc. - so in the same way we project our human experience of gender onto non-human animals. In some sense that feels entirely natural and consistent with other human tendencies. But yeah, it’s weird when we examine it the right way.
hm, I guess I’ve been socialized to think it’s normal … in some obvious sense it’s weird, but no more weird than us thinking of pets as morally the same as humans, for example - we anthropomorphize and project things onto objects and animals that aren’t there, we read intention where there is none, etc. - so in the same way we project our human experience of gender onto non-human animals. In some sense that feels entirely natural and consistent with other human tendencies. But yeah, it’s weird when we examine it the right way.