Having kids in high school is helping me to appreciate there's a remarkable to shift in attitudes that's rippling through society
I'm thinking about the distinctions between gender and sexual identity.
It doesn't seem so long ago that I was considering these topics at university, particularly within units offered by anthropology and womens studies departments.
Yet I trip up on the contemporary language being used all the time.
And I can see how alienating it is for a generation older than me, particularly when a local member makes quips about not wanting any gender fluid in schools.
It's easy to pose inflexible ignorance as a conservative default.
My kids have varied perspectives and it's amazing to me how much more accepting their cohort is when people identify outside of the heteronormative paradigm.
I wonder if there's scope for new euphemisms to recognise the shift in attitudes?
