Sex segregation is the last of lunatic taboos?

What is the taboo of sex segregation?

A taboo is something iyou are supposed not to talk about. But if you insist you might be intellectually well rewarded precisely because of this.

The deeper the taboos the more invisible are the signs for the untrained eye. But if you know what to look for, it’s there, almost unavoidable in its self-explanatory appearance.

Sex segregation has three main theoretical channels in today’s world: Psychoanalysis, which preaches sexual openness and Islam, which preaches the opposite, and feminism, which consists as a variety of variances of these. All three are basically reactionary movements against secular modernity and inevitably vanishing sex roles in practical life, but whereas psychoanalysis and feminism both emerged simultaneously in the late 19th Century entrance into modernity, Islam is of a special interest because it combines the “classical” sex segregation (i e the practical outcome of social institutions at hand) with the modern sex segregation (i e the artificial construction of an institution aimed for the conservation of sex segregation in a fast changing dynamic modern world). In this view Muslim/Islamic feminism is just an extension of Middle Age fundamentalist sex segregation, although totally out of sync with the practical reality of today.

But that's not a problem for it because its main purpose is not in the best interest of women but rather its political strive for dominance.

Peter Klevius
www.klevius.info

Islam and the last of lunatic taboos

What is sex segregation?

A taboo is something you are not supposed to talk about. However, if you like to be a taboo breaker you might also be theoretically well rewarded if you simply ask: Why not? If no one answers you might be lost yourself or you might just have hit the bull's eye!

In the case of sex segregation one is now allowed to talk about occupational, and, maybe, structural segregation, but not to put forward the ultimate questioning of a sex dichotomy that predestines and limits our cultural/societal freedom of being. So why should we do it if it causes such embarrasment among various fundamentalists? Well, precisely because this embarrasment is a sign of the underlying inflammation.

In the world of today sex segregation is defended under three major titles: Psychoanalysis, feminism and modern Islam. These movements are all basically reactions to modernity. Whereas psychoanalysis preaches openings for hetero sexual desire Islam does the opposite. Feminism consists of a variety of combinations of these. Whereas psychoanalysis and feminism originate from the late 19th Century Islam is of a particular interest because it links the old Middle Age sex segregation with the modern (artificial/constructed) one. I.e. that the "classical" sex segregation was more of a natural outcome of the social institutions at hand, while the modern (artificial) sex segregation is a continuously constructed institution for its own sake as a bullwork against vanishing sex roles in practical life.

Klevius' AIQ net deals with sex segregation from several aspects. Although the site is new and under strong development one may already enter it from a variety of angles and depth.

Peter Klevius
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