I'm now attempting to read this thread and it confuses me. Seeing the world as hammer/female/male?!?

Heidegger? What significance does he have in this context. I know practically nothing about Heidegger, merely some minor impressions from listening to Zizek, which lead me to think he (Heidegger) provided a useful perspective on certain roles, something about being conscious about limitations of a given perspective and perhaps a description of how say leaders are mere passengers in flow of time, free but also slave to whatever conditions present. That is at least the impression I got, something like that. A rough and little detailed outline of felt powerlessness perhaps. I don't know, just thinking out loud from the snippet I heard.

Question, and I realize you may find it outright stupid or view me as someone who isn't paying attention. I'm asking and will probably be asking again because the things I perceive isn't computing well meaning I doubt whether what I'm thinking can be so. Call it chronic dissonance.

I'm tempted to discard the literal content of a debate about gender pronouns, simply because I fail to see how or why anyone would invest in promoting anything else than say a traditional view of gender, that it is two of them and that's how nature rolls.

Would it be stupid of me to believe that more or less influential voices is promoting radically new ways of thinking gender, sex and procreation? I mean, at least promoting a discourse which some suspect or view as a covert attempt on designing or effecting new patterns for how we think gender, sex and society. For instance, it may be gays promoting homosexuality because they believe if "everyone" was gay the result would be a more harmonious world thinking how we think about sex is mostly about how we are trained to think about it and suggesting the traditional model to be ripe for improvement since a structure where men chasing attractive women and women powerful men, isn't serving us well.

Or am I missing the point completely. I fear that I am. Any input would be appreciated. I'll read the rest of it now. Hopefully it's okay for you that I comment without thorough preparation.