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    1. bean‏ @christapeterso Feb 23
      Replying to @christapeterso @Moonlitpiglet

      All the way from “Rothblatt marks the shift away from sex essentialist narratives” to “Rothblatt is a sex essentialist,” what a circle it has beenpic.twitter.com/q4iLQEWdSQ

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    2. Moonlit Piglet‏ @Moonlitpiglet Feb 23
      Replying to @christapeterso

      Obviously in that context we were discussing a physiological conception of sex - the entire point is that Rothblatt denies that while essentializing brain sex. A particularly bizarre and incoherent form of essentialism is still essentialism!

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    3. bean‏ @christapeterso Feb 23
      Replying to @Moonlitpiglet

      What does “essentializing” mean to you

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    4. bean‏ @christapeterso Feb 23
      Replying to @christapeterso @Moonlitpiglet

      Or essentialism, whichever

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    5. Moonlit Piglet‏ @Moonlitpiglet Feb 23
      Replying to @christapeterso

      So, first off, I don't think anyone needs a particularly robust definition of "essentialism" to say that talk of "the sex of a person's soul" is essentialism. I think we all know that if a GC person said that, you'd call it in out in a heartbeat.

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    6. Moonlit Piglet‏ @Moonlitpiglet Feb 23
      Replying to @Moonlitpiglet @christapeterso

      But anyway, I understand essentialism (extremely broadly) to be the fixing of a personal characteristic like masculinity, femininity, intelligence, etc. to a biological (or in some cases an otherwise basic) quality like skin color, sex, ethnicity, etc.

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    7. Moonlit Piglet‏ @Moonlitpiglet Feb 23
      Replying to @Moonlitpiglet @christapeterso

      And what Rothblatt does is essentially go a step beyond fixing sex with certain personality traits, and just *collapses* sex into those traits – but in no other situation would anyone argue that ameliorates the essentialism.

      1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
    8. Moonlit Piglet‏ @Moonlitpiglet Feb 23
      Replying to @Moonlitpiglet @christapeterso

      Considering race: Everyone agrees that it’s (racist) essentialism to say Chinese people are innately good at math. It would be ridiculous to oppose that and then support the idea that to be Chinese *just was* to be good at math. That’s worse!

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    9. Moonlit Piglet‏ @Moonlitpiglet Feb 23
      Replying to @Moonlitpiglet @christapeterso

      I think the same applies here – if it’s essentialism to say that your sex determines your personality, then it’s also essentialism to say that your sex *just is* your personality. The fact that neither are fixed is irrelevant *so long as the two are fixed to each other.*

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 24
      Replying to @Moonlitpiglet @christapeterso

      Radfem ideology said the most salient feature of sex - indeed, arguably its *only* feature, the one from which all its material relevance to people's lives derives - is who has the babies

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 24
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Moonlitpiglet @christapeterso

      So, yes, by your terms, if "genderist ideology" is decoupling the definition of "sex" based on "personality" from the question of "who has the babies", it is engaging in the feminist project The fact there are still categories called "men" and "women" afterwards notwithstanding

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 24
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Moonlitpiglet @christapeterso

          The kind of essentialism the old school radfems specifically opposed was "You gave a uterus, therefore your job is to have babies, therefore you are warm and nurturing and soft, therefore you are happier in the domestic sphere than you would be in the workplace"

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 24
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Moonlitpiglet @christapeterso

          By torpedoing "You have a uterus, therefore" the whole chain collapses The whole idea of the phrase "a pregnant man" undermines what radfems believed the fundamental basis of patriarchy was

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