Non-binary and Genderfluidity a Sign of Rising Consiousness?

[rva_jeremy]

I think Jeremy is right that the backlash is about trying to maintain social order through traditional roles and constructs, and why it's perceived as something potentially dangerous like "hostile PC culture" when people are deliberately thwarting it. I've yet to see nonbinary/transgender people rallying in the streets with tiki torches and running cis-gendered people down with their cars, or shooting up Wal-Marts, so I find calling it a hostile culture to be a little bit of an hyperbole at this point in our society.

For what it's worth, and I don't like to emphasize it, I think there are certain sectors of society, such as academia, where oversized bureaucratic apparatuses make enforcing something like a so-called "PC" agenda easier. I'm conflicted; in most cases, I share the broad values and progressive vision of those on the PC side, but I think changes have to come from the bottom up, and using power to force it from the top down inevitably degrades the cause. The most materially important aspect to changing our culture is person-to-person, vulnerable, searching interactions between individuals that bring out the best in people. That kind of work can never be part of a HR initiative; hierarchical institutions instead try to simulate it and end up creating a monster of totalitarian humanism. If you're interested, I wrote an essay about my views on this, mostly criticizing "political correctness" from the left.