Great piece by @OwenJones84 about how gender isn’t some inner essence but socially constructed sexist bullshit, which everyone, especially men, should fight.
https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1159395510110871553 …
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Replying to @VictoriaPeckham @OwenJones84
The problem with believing gender is just a social construct and has no chromosomal basis, Janice, is that it leaves women defenceless when trying to protect women-only spaces. See this piece by Michael Biggs in
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Replying to @toadmeister @VictoriaPeckham and
I think you are confusing gender (as in gendered roles) and sex there Toby. Yes behavioural traits have a genetic basis - overlapping bell curves between the sexes. But we don't literally divide the world into 'ladylike' & 'macho'. Male and Female (when sex matters) will do fine.
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Replying to @MForstater @toadmeister and
I rather think you have MASSIVELY missed the point, Toby! Janice has been spot on and supporting women on this for many years.
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Replying to @CrunchyRedApple @MForstater and
I know she has and I think she is often right on this issue. But I also think she has a blind spot about the links between Blank Slate-ism and transgenderism.
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I think her tweet on the article was snark about OJ's championing of gender identity, not a thesis about children being blank slates (at least that's how I read it)
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Replying to @MForstater @toadmeister and
Agree. OJ can see the problems with gender identity only when it suits him, that was the point being made.
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