Category: Androgyny-Based Gender Theory

Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Gender neutrality has been the new ideal in the emancipation of sexuality and gender for several years. This is evidenced in part by the fact that an increasing number of young people identify as non-binary, a label born of the belief that the dual distinction between masculine and feminine…

Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Patriarchal society (see AGTRT-BA9) has traumatized us. Patriarchal culture has split our psyche, resulting in trauma. Since all people are patriarchally socialized to a greater or lesser degree in the present age, one could argue that all people are traumatized to a greater or lesser degree at this time…

Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Nowadays, there is excellent scientific documentation that gay men suffer from a specific kind of trauma. This “gay trauma” is a very persistent phenomenon, and it is very important to work with it. In the patriarchal society (see AGTRT-BA9) in which we live, everyone is traumatized to a greater…

Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team I have been so inspired by my work into the role of androgyny in human beings that I want to explore this topic further in the coming years. All men are also feminine, and all women are also masculine: every human being has an androgynous core. But there is…

Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team About 12,000 years ago, humans made their greatest cultural shift in the history of our 300,000-year-old species: the Neolithic revolution and the advent of large-scale agriculture heralded the beginning of our patriarchal culture. Humanity traded life in large groups for life in heteronormative nuclear families, based on the father/mother/child…

Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team We know that patriarchy (see AGTRT-BA9) has its roots in the Neolithic revolution, 12,000 years ago. With the start of large-scale agriculture, a different view of humanity and the world based on possession emerged: humanity owns the planet, and the man owns the woman (see also AGTRT-BA1). But before…