Jeremy Stangroom

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 …

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.)

Vent away. It makes me INSANE.

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!)

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

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.