I’m of the opinion that genders are simply a personality stereotype and that there should be no expectations or assumptions made between gender, sex and sexuality. This links in with existentialist/radical feminist (careful there, there’s a variety of forms of radical feminism out there) and queer theory thoughts on the social constructs of gender. Apart from my leanings towards existentialist thought, the main empirical arguments I use for this are a) that the definitions of masculine and feminine are so different through the world and have changed so much throughout the history of mankind that they’re pretty worthless terms and b) the existence of transgendered/transsexual persons shows that you can get the traits of any ‘gender’ in an individual of any sex.
(I also find it strange that none of the references to feminism in the comments distinguish between the different schools of feminist thought, something you can’t avoid if you’re talking about feminism seriously, given they have so differing reasons as to why there is inequality and as to what the solution is.)
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I’m of the opinion that genders are simply a personality stereotype and that there should be no expectations or assumptions made between gender, sex and sexuality. This links in with existentialist/radical feminist (careful there, there’s a variety of forms of radical feminism out there) and queer theory thoughts on the social constructs of gender. Apart from my leanings towards existentialist thought, the main empirical arguments I use for this are a) that the definitions of masculine and feminine are so different through the world and have changed so much throughout the history of mankind that they’re pretty worthless terms and b) the existence of transgendered/transsexual persons shows that you can get the traits of any ‘gender’ in an individual of any sex.
(I also find it strange that none of the references to feminism in the comments distinguish between the different schools of feminist thought, something you can’t avoid if you’re talking about feminism seriously, given they have so differing reasons as to why there is inequality and as to what the solution is.)
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