In an endless cycle of life and death each day
pages of all the newspapers on Earth devoted to
obituaries and new births flaunt congratulatory
events and those of grave sorrow as individuals
once thought of as men and women, girls and boys
depart and arrive. It is difficult to credit how utterly
inadvertent humanity could have been in the past
tens of thousands of years of historical documentation
ascribing to humanity terms of male and female.
It has taken millennia for the brilliant minds of the
present to accurately interpret Nature's blueprint
on peopling the planet. With the aplomb of full
authority we are now advised to advance our faulty
vocabularies to match the apprehension of reality
in reflecting the presence of a multitude of genders.
Proscribed are those identifiers used with such
ease in the past; our grandmothers, mothers and
daughters, our grandfathers, fathers and sons
have become egg-and non-egg-bearing persons
among whom there are those who menstruate
and those who do not. Ease of descriptive
language can be achieved simply by referring
to individuals as those who are XX or XY.
There, that should give Darwin's ghost pause.
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