Shrier uses the phrase "gender ideology" 30 times in the book, describing it as "radical", "cult-like", and a "social contagion". I don't think anyone disputes the word "woke" shouldn't have been inside quotation marks, but does this change her thesis in any meaningful way?
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That's not my point. My point is that Singal has pointed out what seem in fact to be numerous careless errors in the review. The right response is to acknowledge, explain and correct those errors -- not to launch a stupid counterattack.
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As Singal himself notes: this particular error is acknowledged and corrected. But in the mean time, why not address the substantive claim made in the review: Shrier uses a sensationalist phrase over 30 times without bothering to explain what it is.
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Ok, but seriously — are you maintaining that readers don’t understand what she means by “gender ideology”? Is that actually a problem? I mean honestly, it seems pretty self-explanatory to me.
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I don't. She seems to - at various times - be discussing the sex vs. gender distinction, or just the belief that trans identities are valid. "Gender ideology" means a lot of stuff to a lot of people.https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2017/12/11/gender-ideology-tracking-its-origins-and-meanings-in-current-gender-politics/ …
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I’ve read the first graf of this and it’s already made me laugh. This is just incredibly amateurish. “probably bc the Vatican … had other urgent matters to cope with such as the sexual rights of women and sexual orient. as a non-justifiable basis of discrimination.” Ok sure.
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Not sure what difference that makes. The core issue - that "gender ideology" has been used by a variety of hard right groups to attack everything from gay marriage to gender equality. Multiple sources attest to this. https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/budapest/11382.pdf …
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I definitely got the feeling that "gender ideology" is just another term that's bandied about by the right wing to demonize something it doesn't like, the way they coopted "woke" and redefined critical race theory to mean anything that makes white people uncomfortable about race.
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Right, and in the trans rights debate it seems to often be deployed as either a conspiracy theory or as a way of marking relatively mainstream ideas like the sex/gender distinction as something radical.
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Oh, I *definitely* saw elements of a conspiracy theory in Shrier's narrative. I saw them immediately, just as soon as I started looking into Shrier's book and reading it after Dr. Hall's review. I also saw a number of parallels with the antivaccine movement.
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I've debated writing a post about the parallels, but after the
-storm we've been dealing with since Dr. Hall posted her review, I just don't know if I'm ready to compound it right now. Maybe in a week or two (or three).
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