Bye Bye Binary

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🗓️ 6 October 2015

⏱️ 15 minutes

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What if we lived in a world where gender was more like hair color — something you could change at will, and that had little bearing on what other people thought of you? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The And this is Meanwhile in the Future. Meanwhile in the Future is a podcast about possible tomorrow's.
0:15.0	We start every episode with a trip to the future,
0:18.0	and then we come back to now to discuss how that future may or may not happen.
0:22.0	Ready? Great. Let's start this week in the year. future may or may not happen.
0:22.6	Ready?
0:23.4	Great.
0:24.4	Let's start this week in the year 2086. There was a time not so long ago when our world was more rigid.
0:42.3	In courtship, men are supposed to be in the active and women in the passive voice.
0:48.0	London Journal 1875.
0:51.0	People separated themselves into groups, men and women, boys and girls.
0:58.5	There has been a great diversity of opinion on the subject, but the generally accepted
1:02.4	rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl.
1:05.0	The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color is more suitable for the boy,
1:11.0	well blue which is more delicate and dainty is prettier for the girl.
1:16.5	Ladies Home Journal, 1918.
1:21.0	And with those groups came rules, lots of rules.
1:25.0	Boys wore suits and jeans and kept their hair short.
1:29.0	Girls wore pink and dresses and makeup.
1:33.7	The two should not, could not mix.
1:36.9	Women have one of the great acts of all time.
1:40.2	The smart ones act very feminine and needy, but inside they are real killers.
1:46.0	The person who came up with the expression, the weaker sex, was either very naive or had to be
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