In the big picture, the growth of human population and technology has made for a very dangerous situation that our current international system seems incapable of resolving. We love our nations and religions and won’t give them up, but we must enlarge our sense of common humanity so we can cooperate fully on a global scale. We are no longer in a win-lose world, if we ever were. We have entered a world that is clearly either win-win or lose-lose. Only a powerful realization that we are all in the same boat can provide the perspective and political will needed to get us through the coming population peak without precipitate collapse. That’s the big picture.
The women’s movement has already transcended the nations and religions, so in a sense, we are halfway there. “Gender crosstalk” is a new capability of InterMix Voices of Humanity Social Media that will enable women to engage men in a collective dialogue that cuts across national and religious identities. Because it gives women an equal voice with the men, gender crosstalk is a great way for the women’s movement to further its own interest, while at the same time building a global sense of identity for the men -- i.e. making it possible for the men also to transcend the national and religious boundaries.
How does it work? Any InterMix discussion may go into gender crosstalk mode. In each round of a gender crosstalk exchange, there is one winning message from the women and one from the men. The women vote only on messages written by women and the men only on messages written by men. After the first round, each message is a reply to one of the two winners in the previous round. This means that the women and the men may choose in each round to reply to their own previous message or that of the opposite gender.
ETA for the gender crosstalk feature: International Women’s Day, 2014. Expect a radical shift for the better in global consciousness!
