GENDER ISSUES: Some Serious Thoughts about Duality IMAGE: A multi-dimensional lingua and yoni interacting semi-ordered ways. Carlos: (jestfully feigning intoxication despite being quite sober) Issthissahhh-genderstaaatement? Anya: (feigning ignorance while half-knowing) Jees – I dunno. Maybe averythang iz a gendaa struggle in sum way. Devani: (enjoying the jest) Or perhaps merely the interaction between Shiva and Parvati? After all, our small existence is part of a larger divine play, right? Brice: (shaking his head slightly, feeling more amused than annoyed) What have you folks been drinking? Why can't you be serious? Devani: (laughing slightly) Actually, the whole notion of being "serious" is curiously funny! Should an ant be serious about the insignificant mound it creates? Or a mayfly be serious about its nugatory dance? In the big picture, how much of our activity activity merits being "serious?" Beg.: 2003 Nagoya – T Newfields Fin.: 2023 Yokohama Chinese Japanese Spanish Online Art Creative Commons. Attribution {{CC-BY-4.0}} ===================================================================================== from POEATIONS: Explorations in meta-poetry by T Newfields Summary: A reflection on various representations of gender and a discussion of meaning. Keywords: gender identity, humor in discourse, irrelevance, pragmatics and gender Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?) Begun: 2003 in Nagoya, Japan ☆ Finished: 2023 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST https://www.tnewfields.info/Poeations/wilder.htm TOC https://www.tnewfields.info/Poeations/index.html NEXT > https://www.tnewfields.info/Poeations/rat.htm TRANSLATIONS ESPAÑOL: https://www.tnewfields.info/es/gen.htm NIHONGO: https://www.tnewfields.info/jp/jendaa.htm ZHŌNGWÉN: https://www.tnewfields.info/zh/xingbie.htm