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We call them a chimera?

• dragonwriter 4y ago
  Sex essentialists exploding the gender binary is…a new one.
  • StanislavPetrov 4y ago
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    • dragonwriter 4y ago
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      • catiopatio 4y ago
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        • dragonwriter 4y ago
          Like a “race”, a “gender” is a social grouping of either identity or ascribed membership that is distinguished by being viewed as being exclusive with (though, in some models, admitting mixtures as their own unique possibilities), others in the same named group.
          • catiopatio 4y ago
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            • dragonwriter 4y ago
              > By that definition, isn’t “emo” — or literally any other social category — a gender No, “emo” is a social category that is not exclusive with genders, its in a different bucket. But, yes, the distinction of social categories into groups like “gender”, “race”, etc., is, like the categories themselves, fundamentally an arbitrary social construct. > Do you believe that segregated services — sports, bathrooms, locker rooms, etc — were intended to be segregated by gender, as opposed to sex? Binary “sex” is just ascribed gender on the basis of a subset of sex traits. To the extent there is a valid basis for segregating services, it varies from service to service. Similarly, the motivations vary from service to service (and, generally differ from the legitimate justifications, if any.)