As a 'sex/gender expert' I will believe that if my female child exhibits behaviour that is coded masculine then she is a boy. Because as a 'sex/gender expert' I think that socially constructed patriarchal norms determine biology.https://twitter.com/Literature_Lady/status/1170034994288500748 …
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It's absolutely extraordinary that educated people who genuinely believe themselves to be feminists could think that what determines whether a person is a man or woman is whether they embrace the stereotypical norms of a patriarchal system.
I know it's not good form for a man to explain feminism to a woman - it looks terrible, I know - but this stuff is just such bollox. (You know all this, I realise. Just venting.)
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Vent away. It makes me INSANE.
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It's bonkers. If you cash out their position it's going to turn out they think you can identify out of oppression. If gender is a free for all, just a matter of how you identify, then there's no systemic sex-based oppression. Except IT WON'T BLOODY WORK. (Still venting!)
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We've asked them this a million times as well. Because the logical endpoint of this argument is that its women's fault for being raped because they did not identify as not-women. Except as you say, it's bullshit. Because - who knew? - patriarchal gender operates on SEXED bodies
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It's hopeless. There's a PhD thesis to be written on how we got to this point. It has something to do with the fact that American progressives can't throw off their neoliberal inheritance.
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