We've decided not to share Storm's sex for now — a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become in Storm's lifetime (a more progressive place? ...)."
the author of the TIME article writes, "The way Storm's parents handle the de-genderizing (is that a word?) of the youngest member of their family is confusing at best and creepy at worst." i would respond to the family with a quote from c.s. lewis's "perelandra," which i just finished about an hour ago.
"What Ransom saw at that moment was the real meaning of gender ... Gender is a reality, and a more fundamental reality than sex. Sex is, in fact, merely the organic adaptation to organic life of a fundamental polarity which divides all created beings. Female sex is simply one of the things that have feminine gender; there are many others, and Masculine and Feminine meet us on planes of reality where male and female would be simply meaningless. Masculine is not attenuated male, nor feminine attenuated female. On the contrary, the male and female of organic creatures are rather faint and blurred reflections of masculine and feminine. Their reproductive functions, their differences in strength and size, partly exhibit, but partly also confuse and misrepresent, the real polarity."
whereas many consider gender a social construct built on sexual differences, lewis writes that gender is, in fact, the reality; sex is merely its representation in a physical world. i'm not sure what i think of this, given that (spiritually speaking) we know that there is "neither male nor female, neither jew nor greek, neither slave nor free," but i certainly found the idea interesting.
