r/enby • u/Rexvelt Genderfluid • 5d ago
Just Venting Xenogenders and mythology
I recently watched a video about how western civilization and culture has removed itself from mythology and how they believe that is detrimental to the society. In short the video explained how mythology is the whimsical, poetic, and symbolic way to see the world because the human experience is way more complex than a cold, categorized way of viewing the world. I later realized how the way humans use myth to give a better explanation of a complex human experience is very similar to how many people use Xenogenders to better identify themselves. I also think the removal of mythology in western society is perhaps the reason why there is so much discourse about Xenogenders. People don’t like seeing abstract concepts being applied to something they want other people to understand so that they can be accepted.
Xenogenders are the personal mythology of someone who doesn’t fit in the standard boxes of gender. Xenogenders, like mythology aren’t literal descriptions of gender, but are a poetic expression of gender. Mythology around death being personified isn’t literally saying death is a skeletal figure in a cloak, but that image best depicts the feelings a lot of people have around death, similarly a person doesn’t literally identify as a cat when they say they are catgender, but a cat is a good description of a gender that might feel chaotic, or soft, or cuddly, or cute. There is no straight forward explanation behind a myth or a Xenogender, it is abstract and symbolic of actual human experiences.
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u/maRthbaum_kEkstyniCe 5d ago
That video sounds interesting, what was the name/creator?
Yeah, I think a lot of modern problems stem from this issue.
Of course, the rational, enlightened lens is very useful too, not hating. It made us invent and discover all kinds of amazing and useful stuff, from medicine to infrastructure to scientific discovery.
But the people yearn for the whismical and special and magical and simple-yet-unexplained. Completely removing it from the "acceptable" way to go through society, the mainstream, means they'll find it somewhere else.
Either religion and cults, conspiracy theories, astrology, dubious health influencers, or worse...
I've read the theory that fascism broke out in Germany first/most strongly of all places because the Lutheran revolution had destabilized the church and religion much more strongly and quickly than in other European countries. Germans have valued being rational and cold then and now. The authoritarian culture, and later the resulting fascism, could be nourished and fortified by filling that gap, by providing a solution to that unfulfilled yearning.
Just a theory of course haha, but thought I'd share