I already feel sorry for asking, but what exactly is the motivation for those who want gender to be considered a purely social construct?
In particular, women are over-emotional, irrational, fickle, bad at maths & science. Therefore men must control them & run the world.
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Women in general feel more 'gender-fluid' than men, right?
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Don't know. More flexibility of sexuality seems to have been shown but this seems to have a different basis to what I was talking about.
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Well, I dunno. It would seem to me that you can accept women = men in reason, while retaining gender differences.
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I suspect it's more to do with sex stuff to be honest, i.e. the hardships of the mating game.
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What is?
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i.e. I suspect the motivations for gender neutrality could be borne of frustrations with mating/reproduction game. Just a guess.
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Oh I don't know - I haven't thought through it that hard. Could be all sorts of things.
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Those of us who attempt to say that these are uncharitable framings of qualities which can also be framed as strengths as not heard.
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eg Lots of stuff once called women's moral weakness, fickleness & suggestibility can now be related to greater empathy & openness.
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Our sympathies are more easily engaged. We feel more sympathy with people receiving 'deserved' negative consequences on average.
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More recently, the wish to see gender as a social construct is motivated by concern for trans acceptance.
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Rather than 'Accept trans people's identity. It feels right to them & doesn't hurt you' - gotta change how everyone thinks of gender.
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Yeah, but trans is only a small minority. This movement seems to be much bigger than that. Maybe I'm wrong.
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Isn't that exactly Julie Kristeva's thesis?
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Pretty much. The feminine is the irrational, emotional & disorderly which bashes at order & reason which is masculine.
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Does she mean "the feminine" as an abstract or does she really think women are like that. If so, how popular is her branch of feminism?
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The feminine is usually women & women have greater access to the feminine & very little to the masculine (symbolic order)
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But anything outside the symbolic order of patriarchal structures of power is feminine. Jesus would have been.
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Its an apolitical feminism & is critical of political feminism & they are critical of it. And she doesn't necessarily identify as feminist.
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Aha. Interesting, thanks. I'll take this moment to renew my proposal for a new coalition against the French.
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Our new Napoleon will vanquish your coalition, as easily as the first one did.pic.twitter.com/O6lcp1paAs
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