I love Alan Watts and remember that quote.
You really opened my eyes to some new perspectives here, specifically,
Defining your sex is about defining yourself and your own way not about making preassumptions about the people who made the same choice(or have the same biological features). They might have a very different personality. In the end, I would prefer if we rather saw ourselves as living parts of the ecosystem earth then as separated individuals that are either male or female or of this or that race or have this or that feature.
However, you lost me at.
Gender is very dangerous and identification with gender is dangerous.
I don't see that as dangerous in the least. Unless, perhaps, you're referring to the political ramifications of expressing one's views about gender if they don't align with the current PC culture of the day. Care to elaborate why you think gender is very dangerous and identification with gender is dangerous?
Until recently, that has not been something people would call dangerous so I truly am in the dark on that whole idea.
I also call the times human beings have gone through until today dangerous. We might have overcome some dangers in some part of the world yet we have created new ones. Now we have to face them as a planet earth community. This is something totally new and I think in the process of this we have to let go of a lot of the things we identify with. Gender is dangerous for me for example because identifying with the female gender can easily get me emotionally involved because of historical and current crimes commited on females. But it does not help if we only sympatize with the group of people we can easily identify with. But I can totally understand that it seems a bit far out. I just wish for a peaceful world where people focus on healing the ecological crisis. Yet we are still to hurt about the psychological issues we caused in each others in the centuries of getting more conscious to be strong enough to overcome them yet. If we could that would make us an even more intelligent species I guess.
Humans can be wonderful and horrible. I don't think gender has that much to do with it, though the media will tell us differently.
I just posted about this in Men Don't Have A Monopoly On Violence - The Myth Of Female Innocence
The idea that only women are victims is a false one. It gets back to the idea we were discussing, that humans are humans and are capable of greatness and deviousness. I don't see it as a gender specific issue.