What is your opinion on gender and gender ambiguity?

To me, gender is what I AM... not something I put on in the morning. I am a femme who dresses butch. Go figure. .

i don't even look at it as a factor of anything. honestly, i'm a female, but don't feel or act like it, but i'm not a guy. i'd be happy in the middle. i am in the middle, cept i hate my boobs and my monthly, i think i'll find a way to get those out of the way so i'm happier. ^_^ lol, i hope u read ur stuff fast, cause every answer i've given has been getting deleted... yay? lol, i'm not wanted here. honestly, i don't care. lol.

Gender is what is inside of you. Outward expressions of gender don't define who you are. Gender can be whatever you want it to be! :)))

I don't agree that stereotypes are everything. I don't think we're all the same. I believe gender is a spectrum best demonstrated as a double Bell curve. We are born somewhere on that curve. Most people fit comfortably under "female" or "male", but many do not. I respect the rights of people to be themselves. But at the same time I wonder how many gender variant people really feel that way, that they are in fact just rebelling against society or attention seeking. I may have answered this question totally wrong because I don't know if you were speaking about gender identity or gender presentation. They are separate issues and I answered for the most part from the gender identity perspective.

personally I think gender lines like clothing etc have been forced on us by society, I really don't care what people wear etc, it is the personalities which count. your gender identity comes form inside you and I have always been a male trapped in a female body. The day my mind matches my body the better. However I do not feel obliged to wear what society tells me I should wear, I wear what i like to wear and do not judge others that do the same. why have you guys given HaK my mate the thumbs down? HaK I love you hun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *gives out scottish shortbread*

I think gender should be whatever one wants it to be, not dictated by the majority. The male/female gender dichotomy is ridiculous. It's just a way to get people to conform to society. I am genderqueer and proud of it.

As a coincidence, I was thinking about this issue on the way home from work today. In terms of fashion, gender ambiguity and androgyny seem to go in and out of style in mainstream popular culture about once every decade or so. Sometimes its very self-conscious and rebellious, but other times, it just appears. I have no idea why. I'm thinking more of men...mods, glam rockers, new wave, hair metal, however one would classify Marilyn Manson, and whatever it is going on with Adam Lambert. Sometimes it's underground, sometimes, not so much. I was also thinking about those older science fiction movies, where everyone in the future wears the same one-piece jump suit...that at one time, when the future meant the triumph of science and reason, that triumph included something like erasing gender norms for clothing. I guess in the 60s, when the future meant the liberation of emotions, men started to wear their hair long, against the strict gender distinction norms of the 50s, so, the future also meant erasing surface gender differences then as well. IDK, though. It seems like each generation seems to challenge the gender roles in time, but that surface norms like clothing and makeup are the easiest ways to confront strict gender roles, but those challenges seem to be unstable, hence they have to be "re-discovered" every ten years. And then we go back to re-instituting and praising gender distinctions. I've always dressed like a man and didn't explore ambiguity as an option. I've challenged my gender in other ways, and thought about what I was supposed to be doing as a man. At the same time, though, I do like my gender as it is and seeing someone else bend the rules doesn't make me rethink the role. Now a man acting like a chauvinist a$$hole and getting social praise for it, or being caught beating his girlfriend up and then getting sympathy for the unfair arrest...well that kind of thing makes me question my gender a whole lot more often. If I think that most men who behave like men are insane and try not to behave like them...isn't that also a gender role challenge? Sorry for the long answer...you've asked a question that is probably best covered in a book.

Gender to me, is an identity, masculinity and femininity are codes of behavior that shouldn't be forced on any identity, ultimately I'm not even sure a person can be masculine or feminine. I guess I'm more in line with old school feminists than anyone as far as that goes. What exactly that gender identity is/should be based on, I don't know. a boy in a pink shirt and eyeliner isn't really gender ambiguous, because from the start of the sentence we already know what his gender is....well, as long as we're spelling boy with a y we know what his gender is. gender ambiguity is when I'm talking to someone and I'm not sure if their wearing a binder or just a poorly sized sports bra, and wouldn't be totally sure on the signifigance of the binder, and I have to say "they" whenever I talk about the conversation I was having earlier

Personally, I feel that gender is just a set of stereotypes that the majority of society feels the need to follow in order to separate the men from the women. I mean, really though, is it really necessary? Nobody is just one thing. Women aren't 100% feminine, and men aren't 100% masculine. We're all a blend of the two. Some are more of one than the other. I'm roughly 50/50. Some may be 70/30 or 40/60, and that's okay, too.