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"I seriously doubt GLO's will ever become "genderless". I certainly hope not! I joined DZ so that I could interact with women that I had things in common with, and so that I could create lifelong bonds of friendship. I can talk about ANYTHING to my sisters without fear of ridicule or sarcasm. There are just some things that women can't share with men, and I think breaking down the gender barrier would be detrimental because it would be impossible to share the same type of bond with a man than with a woman (and vice versa for the guys)." -- dzrose
A lot of people feel that way, and it probably will take much longer to have co-ed GLO's than to integrate them (at best there will only be SOME that are co-ed anytime soon). The same mindset is often applied when considering race because people feel a special bond with people of thier own race. The question is, regardless of that, should someone of the opposite sex still have the option to try and join just like someone of a different race? Or is exclusion of a particular gender ok? If you can't exclude someone because of race, then why should you be able to exclude them because of gender? I mean, I know most people would continue to remain in groups with their own gender, similar to how most people continue to pledge to frat/sororities that are predominantly their own race, but should the option to join still be there for people regardless of race, gender, etc? There would still be other men/women for you to bond with, it just wouldn't be exclusively men/women anymore (I know, "It's not the same"). I'm not stating an opinion one way or the other, just wondering what everyone thinks.
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