By no means the first time Coyne has made an arse of himself pontificating about something when he's not familiar with the terrain. https://twitter.com/boodleoops/status/810563676990275585 …
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It's not that he's wrong about there being a schism - there is a schism. But he's wrong about why 2nd wavers tend to see...
trans women as not being women (in the same way "regular" women are women). It's coz gender is a social fact (or structure)...
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something associated with expectations, roles, etc., that are imposed upon people (via proceses or socialisation, etc)...
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and not something that one can choose (or choose to avoid) simply because one feels a certain kind of way. The relation with
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biology is complicated - and 2nd wavers have trouble getting straight about it - so, for example, they'd probably want to
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argue that there is certain biological fundamentals that will produce a commonality of experience (e.g., child birth;
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menstruation; fear of male violence(?); etc), but the point of 2nd wave feminism is to say that women's biology shouldn't
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impose certain kinds of gender roles, & it certainly explain or justify a hierarchical system of gender inequality.
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In other words, while intersectional feminists tend to valorise gender identity, 2nd wavers see gender in patriarchal society
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as something to be destroyed.
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