Against gender roles and other binaries? Blame monotheistic religion.

[trotsky]

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/07/gender-roles-binaries-blame-monotheistic-religion/

Many religious traditions, and in particular, monotheistic Abrahamic (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) religions view the Supreme Being as without origin, for this deity was never born and will never die. This Being, perceived as male, is viewed as perfect, exists completely independently from human beings, and transcends the natural world.

In part, such a Being has no sexual desire, for sexual desire, as a kind of need, is incompatible with this concept of perfection. This accounts for the strict separation between the Creator and the created.

Just as the Creator is distinct from His creation, so too are divisions between the earthly sexes in the form of strictly-defined genders and gender roles. This distinction provides adherents to monotheistic religions a clear menu of their designated socially constructed roles: the guidelines they need to follow in connection to their God and to other human beings.

Central to monotheism is the notion of “dualism:” the belief in binary oppositions with no nuance or middle positions in the universe, such as God/Devil, mind/body, right/wrong, good/evil, right/left, male/female, righteousness/sin, Christian/infidel, and so on.

Interesting take.

[RussBLib]

1. to be overly simplistic

It is, after all, the "Father, Son and Holy Ghost" not "Mother, Daughter and Holy Ghost."

The fact that so many societies still oppress women, largely because of these ancient texts, is tragic, shameful, unnecessary and wrong. And all about imaginary things.

[trotsky]

2. But you see they are *very sure* about those imaginary things.

And we must respect that.