So, I find this bit is key. The rad-fem argument that gender is the social construction isn’t wrong. That’s literally how they defined the word so as to use it in specific political ways 1/a couple
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Replying to @PsychScientists @djnavarro and
Word meaning can change and evolve, but it also has history. A lot of the gender critical stuff I’ve read is an effort to get back to the original feminist notion of gender because of concerns that expanding the meaning screws up the conversations you can have
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The pitch seems to be ‘*gender* isn’t the right way to frame your nonconformity because it leads to weirdnesses’ sometimes followed by ‘here’s an alternative framing’ And the weirdnesses show up for the feminists because the word gender means very specific things
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Replying to @PsychScientists @djnavarro and
It’s almost a incommensurability problem; the word is being used in such different ways that it entails different things for the different camps and the generous read of the gender crit people is that they are trying to articulate that End of attempt to explain what I mean :)
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Replying to @PsychScientists @djnavarro and
I don't think you have touched on something we didn't already know. I have been immersed in this for years — with help from many sources, including (thankfully for me) trans women.
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Replying to @o_guest @PsychScientists and
if you are interested in listening.
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Replying to @o_guest @djnavarro and
I am! I’m just earlier days than you :) I also have that privileged perch where I can see both sides, but that cuts both ways; I understand why people living this have a more visceral response and why I don’t, so I try not to mistake my perch for the ‘best’ position
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Replying to @PsychScientists @djnavarro and
Dude. I'm for many intents and purposes a cis woman, in STEM... I grew up in a country without a feminist movement. I'm exactly who "the female eunuch" should appeal to.
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Replying to @o_guest @PsychScientists and
To call your perch privileged because you can see "both sides" is really playing into gender fascism/TERFism's hands. Stop trying to explain your position to a bunch of women. It's painful.
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Even though explicitly you keep denying it, it's obvious you have some gaps here. And that's fine. Not stop trying to say you can see both sides. There's no two sides...
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Replying to @o_guest @PsychScientists and
It's fascism vs anti-fascism pure and simple.
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