@kleinherenbrink Ok, I watched the documentary. Most important lessons imo (most of them, in one form or another, have been raised already):
While I find her work, which I have only just been exposed to, interesting. It still makes use of the binary. Only instead of saying it's 2
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male vs female it conceptualises it as 2 points on a 1d line/spectrum as well as points on a 2d plane.https://twitter.com/Fausto_Sterling/status/857306554709749762 …
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I find the use of language/imagery that enforce the idea of hyper-masc vs hyper-fem a little bit jarring and hyper-simplistic (to use the
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same prefix). Nonbinary people exist because they are exactly OFF the line between male and female.
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Also saying that gender and sex are different is kind of old school in my opinion. I'd never dare tell a trans woman that her sex is male.
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A trans woman's penis is no more male than a trans woman's hair is male. Body parts being assigned "sex" or "gender" in my opinion misses
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the whole point of trying to escape a binary.
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