No, not the kind which employ a board game to determine the supremacy of males or females. This war seeks to answer not which gender is better/smarter/stronger, but whether the genders even exist as concrete categories. Are we born male and female, as the Bible teaches, or are we androgynous creatures at birth, free to peruse our options and decide later in life whether to be male or female? This seems like a ridiculous question for those of us with a biblically-based worldview of sexuality and gender, but secular academics and politicians are weighing in on the issue with a vigorous denial of gender being an established category given to humanity from God, or whatever Creator one has a belief in.
Albert Mohler commented on a recent op-ed piece in the NY Times:
Controversies and debates about gender define much of today's cultural landscape. In reality, if you take away all debates about gender, gender roles, and sexuality, our world would be a much quieter place. Nevertheless, the world we know is a world increasingly in revolt against the idea that gender is assigned by our Creator and is thus a fixed category.
A perfect illustration of this confusion is found on the May 12, 2009 op-ed page ofThe New York Times. There, along with articles by the paper's own columnists, was an article by Jennifer Finney Boylan, a professor of English at Colby College in Maine.
Professor Boylan argues that we should just accept and celebrate "the elusiveness of gender" and see the most difficult questions about gender as "sometimes unanswerable."
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