I disagree. People are defining themselves by an ideology. It's disingenuous to ascribe adherence to that ideology before it existed. Striking similarities certainly, but the same phenomenon was explained under a prior ideology. Such as the prior AND current one I hold.
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Nothing I said mentioned an ideology.
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Substitute 'modern concept' then, it's what I mean.
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Replying to @telreth @TheShyWoof and
No one really gives all that much of a shit about the complex metaphysics here, we're just saying you can be a woman and have a penis Not that different from the 30s
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TheShyWoof and
Wrong then and wrong now. I'd be deeply surprised by seeing that from that era too.
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Replying to @telreth @TheShyWoof and
Well of course you would That's why they burned all the fucking books The intention was erasure and your ignorance is proof of their success How is this not getting through
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TheShyWoof and
Because it's not that compelling? Sorry you know the truth of it but the record has been completely expunged? If you're right it's a bind, but if you're wrong...
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Replying to @telreth @TheShyWoof and
Of course it wasn't completely expunged, but it was an act of terror intended to shift public opinion and people's sense of what was "normal", and it worked Hence people treating Harry Benjamin "inventing transsexuality" after working with Kinsey in the 50s like a big shock
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Replying to @arthur_affect @telreth and
But Benjamin was one of Hirschfeld's colleagues who'd fled to the US and was open about the fact that he was building on Hirschfeld's ideas None of this is secret or truly lost knowledge, a lot if it is on the fucking Internet, just driven out of respectable conversation
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TheShyWoof and
I sincerely doubt the horrors of Nazi Germany have anything to do with this robust and nigh universal understanding of sex and the related terms.
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They were very clearly built on a foundation of wanting to live in a world where men are real men and women are real women and everyone knows what that means And the search for someone to blame for the erosion of these categories eventually becoming murderous
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Replying to @arthur_affect @telreth and
It's also worth mentioning that the discrete categories of an inviolable binary gender came with the Christian missionary imperialism, during which any culture that *did* recognize greater gender-variance was forcibly conditioned to accept only the binary.
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