Decolonize gender! Justice and liberty for Muxe, Sekrata, Bakla, Fakafifine, Fakaleiti, Mahu and everyone else 🌺
Empires and their hunger for conquering, subduing and imprinting their bias and ideals on others may have eradicated acceptance within most cultures, but there are still those that persevered against all odds... Pit a bigoted empire with iron tools, numbers & gunpowder against a bunch of small tribes–who will win? Most of the time, the answer is obvious, but the odd victory does come to the tribe and we mustn't forget that! Nevermind the disease they brought to people whose immune systems weren't privy to... What those big bullies did to pick on the smaller folk who just wanted to be left alone is nothing more than cowardly and contemptible acts... It is babyish to impose your own bias by way of bloody, razing warfare and all the disgusting horrors that always follow suit like a rotten shadowy tail. What Rome—& later additionally ignorant, narrow-minded empires—did starting 2000+ years ago with their conqueror's mindset was spread around their ideals, imposing them on people that they weren't natural to—who could say classism and division by sex is natural, anyway—and up-ended the natural way of life for many, such as the celtic & Germanic tribes, who had same sex relations in abundance and much equality between women and men, the former even allowing women as leaders & having strong personalities in public life... A German tribe, the Nahanarvali, seemingly had acceptance of gender/sex diversity, and the celts may have, aswell, though their detailed history, aswell as that of the Germanic tribes, is quite obscured and most of it sadly lost... By the first century AD, same sex relations were seemingly viewed quite negatively within most Germanic tribes, so a shift occurred at some point—older sources show that it was prevalent... It is detailed by 1st century & later writers that it was now death penalty within these tribes to have same sex relations... Would this apparent shift be the reason the ancient Norse or Northern European viking folks were so ungodly homophobic & despising of femininity in men so much that it was seen as a grave & serious accusation to call another man feminine?
What then happened after that whole fiasco was a bunch of empires even worse than Rome forming, such as the Spanish, English, Portuguese, Belg-- idk Belgianese (???). Europe's entire history after this for centuries is just war, war, five years of peace, war war war.... You'd think they'd learn, but no! Kept going the same way over and over again, expecting shit to change... But there was constant off with the king's head and off with the queen's head and the common man always suffered the brunt of it—the way these so previously praised empires functioned simply was and never could be sustainable...
On nearly every continent, and for all of recorded history, thriving cultures have recognized, revered, and integrated more than two genders
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