I already feel sorry for asking, but what exactly is the motivation for those who want gender to be considered a purely social construct?
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Replying to @christianjbdev
In feminism, it stems from the fact that differences between men & women have been used to say women are inferior & should be subordinated.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
In particular, women are over-emotional, irrational, fickle, bad at maths & science. Therefore men must control them & run the world.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Women in general feel more 'gender-fluid' than men, right?
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Replying to @christianjbdev
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
Well, I dunno. It would seem to me that you can accept women = men in reason, while retaining gender differences.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
But yes. This is what reasonable people keep arguing. But its not what was done historically & feminists assume it can't be now.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Even if they feel stereotypes still exist, why do away with gender, when you could just argue that women are as smart as men?
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Replying to @christianjbdev
They are paranoid. See end of Norwegian Gender Paradox. Shown differences & they said 'But what's the motivation for finding differences?'
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
They assume its to disadvantage women & justify giving them fewer opportunities.
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You have to remember, they want to believe that fewer women are in STEM coz discrimination. STEM is pinnacle. Women are denied access.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
If studies find, as they do, that fewer women are interested, this can only be part of scientific sexism which said women can't science.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
Showing that women are more gifted than men verbally & socially is just trying to push women back to menial caring roles - helpmeets of men.
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