That's the rub isn't it. The disparate hierarchies persist in spite of our individuality. What is feminism for, if not to mitigate them?
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It's one approach to gender equality but too biased & loaded with ideological baggage to be popular.pic.twitter.com/DtDL4vBEtg
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Be that as it may, standing within our culture is not necessarily a good vantage point for deciding which phenomena aren't social constructs
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Well, no. Biology is better.
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And sociological evidence generally. Getting ideology out of the mix as much as possible should be the aim.
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The point of contention is precisely the extent to which biology determines gender roles, racial castes & social hierarchy, is it not?
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We make a lot of culture bound assumptions about gender that comparative studies indicate are questionable.
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Asserting the primacy of biology is itself an ideological act, and essentially begging the question.
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I have had to return temporarily coz Christina Sommers kindly tweeted one of my essays. I will deal with responses to it & get back to break
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In what way is it useful? It is a cataloguing of grievance, a litany of envy. The only truths it exposes are trivial ones.
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Intersectionality as a description for the concept of bias being more or less than the sum of its parts? Sure, that makes sense. ->
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If in a specific situation, women overall face X bias and black people overall face Y bias, it doesn't mean a black woman faces exactly X+Y.
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Start by recognising EVERY individual is unique. Aggregate, generalise & extrapolate, ever cogniscant of errors these processes introduce
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