A Future with No Gender | Daphna Joel | TEDxVerbier

Prof Daphna Joel imagines a society without gender, supported by her research work in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Prof. Daphna Joel received her Ph.D. in psychology in Tel-Aviv University in 1998, and joined the faculty of TAU, after receiving the Alon fellowship for young Israeli scientists. Prof. Joel is presently the head of the Psychobiology graduate program and the Chair of the PhD Committee at the School of Psychological Sciences and a member of the Sagol School of Neuroscience.

[magzcan]

We are all just people. plain and simple. All with different physical and personality traits.

[supreme]

This woman is a so ahead of the times, she articulated so much of what I try to explain to my friends for the longest time. The problem I found quite often is that the average person does not understand basic sociology which explains why they get even more confused when they try to comprehend a topic before studying so much of what it is linked to.

The only hypocrisy though is, if we don't care about men and women, why should some transfeminine folks be entitled to the term "woman" and all the validation & empowerment that comes with it, when we're trying to dismantle the binaries in modern society altogether?

[davidzubiria]

Pd:the problem with the multiple choice surveys it's that people lie. It depend on many factors but you don't necessarily live in the way you would describe yourself in a survey. There's better ways to do it.

[FutureDani]

Just let her debate this with some one and see how really all of it holds up !

[yulnikita]

Completely free to like whatever she likes but that cant be imposed on other people. Im a woman I enjoy being a woman. Actually this aggressive attempt at the erasure of women is going to create much more pushback than support

[ariel]

What about being trans and non-binary? I identify as agender, or no gender, but everyone has different experiences with it.

[markrussell]

Wonderfully simplistic. I guess this means we should all use the same bathroom. I would suggest that medical science, and related research, is just one example of and area very interested in your gentiles, given it very much impacts your health and therapies.

[dD]

It is more complicated than answering questions in a study...What we believe we can do and what we can actually do are different issues. there are different physical abilities between men and women (statistically speaking) having a lot to do with hormonal makeup. That cannot be denied. So yes, stereotypes are the problem, not gender.