Current progressive gender theory seems really inadequate, but it's popular because it's serving an important function - it's giving name and validation to actual experiences people are having. Does anyone have suggestions for a different theory that serves this function better?
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Okay, I can understand that, but I don't really think it's helpful to transfer that concept to gender.
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i think transferring this concept - giving name and validation to experiences - to gender is actually quite important. a lot of feminism is recognizing and naming sensations and experiences [chiefly] women have - and which would normally be passed over/not discussed
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This never happened to me somehow. I like being weird though,so maybe that's why.
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It has happened to me, which is why I could understand, but it seems like we're talking about something very different here. Of course I could be missing something.
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I think there's: (1) The "nice weird" (which probably is a result of a positive reclaimal of a negatively loaded term:a good thing) from (2) The "I-don't-belong kind of weird". To know the experience is shared is also to know that you do belong, more than you believed before.
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This is slave morality. Stop worrying about social consensus and live in the pre-label world of the Real!
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I think that's a good thing to remember when using labels personally but it's uhh...a lot less practical:p
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What's wrong with gender dysphoria? It's not something new and it exists separately from todays crazy ideas.
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It's not precisely the existence of a label that does this. It's when there's people telling you what to do with your weirdness. That means that there's a role in your culture for people like you. Even if that role is low status, it at least lets you escape nihilism.
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A diagnosis isn’t a theory.
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