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Of all the inane arguments I've heard against gender fluidity, the Pope's latest has to be one of the most ridiculous: claiming that the world will be "dull" if not for stark divides between certain forms of masculinity and femininity in "fruitful tension". I totally get biological essentialism in some Abrahamic faiths (though not all, if you've ever talked to Reform rabbis!), but to suggest the world would be *duller* with more fluidity?!
Honey, tell me you've never lived without telling me.
@MLClark When I was an altar boy as a child, we wore basically a long skirt. Talk about fluidity.
(Altar boy cassock image courtesy of Catholic Supply of St. Louis, Inc.)