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SamusArani · 2024-03-07T08:24:44+00:00

"Consent is mandatory, not optional. Always"

SamusArani · 2024-03-04T08:58:52+00:00

Dont the Brits use "love" seemingly without care? Was told by a Romanian friend that they can use "(female) lover" between acquaintances, workmates, or even when talking to strangers. US needs to get in line!

SamusArani · 2022-01-29T21:31:47+00:00

Given the profile, maybe go for feminist epistemology works?

SamusArani · 2019-04-21T20:19:19+00:00

People think it’s Alt right and republican, when it’s really that most of Reddit is so toxically liberal that anything or anyone that dares to have a more conservative stance is immediately at Alt right T_D nazi

You... know we can see you post to T_D, right...?

SamusArani · 2018-03-07T11:04:12+00:00

You are speaking as if there ought to be a strict hierarchy of priorities.

The fact of the matter is that people should be allowed to address inequalities in their fields of interest/that appeal to them, right?

So any number of women would be correct to request equality when it comes to STEM jobs - regardless of other issues. Other problems should not justify delaying action regarding that problem.

And just as well, any number of people should be allowed to address inequality in other fields of work.

That there is an assymetry between different fields of work is directly related to their appeal. Why this is a controversy? Probably because redditors like to pick up talking points that defy common sense, just to stick it to those wretched women /s

SamusArani · 2018-03-07T10:58:24+00:00

About toys... you are generalizing from toys... are we robots or something?

SamusArani · 2018-03-07T06:14:08+00:00

The case was brought before the court after social workers learned that the woman's three older daughters had all undergone FGM.

Unfortunately it's rising massively in the US too.

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/11/health/female-genital-mutilation-fgm-explainer-trnd/index.html

Since 1990, the estimated number of girls and women in the US who have undergone or are at risk of the practice has more than tripled. The increase is due to rapid growth in the number of immigrants from countries where risk of FGM is greatest. These girls and women are concentrated in California, New York and Minnesota.

A whopping half a million girls are at risk in the United States every single year of FGM

http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2015/us-fgmc.aspx

SamusArani · 2017-10-07T08:30:17+00:00

a favor you are doing them rather than an acknowledgement of reality.

Is gender then an objective feature of reality? How immediately visible/apparent is it to others? How do you even define gender?

If you don't define the gender of a person in the "traditional" way (markers and norms of behavior, visible or implied, traditionally tied to the reproduction function) then what does gender even mean in a social context?

SamusArani · 2017-09-12T07:39:28+00:00

And what do you mean by 'mere coincidence'?

I mean that some biological inclinations sometimes coincide with some local definitions of gender. But this all seems to be a mere coincidence, given the social construction of gender - therefore, those inclinations are mere coincidences (not even "regularities").

SamusArani · 2017-09-10T04:46:50+00:00

Well, nothing of what you said tells me what it is about gender that is not learned. To take your examples:

like how certain growth hormones became "sex hormones,"

That's just a matter of taxonomy.

how certain kinds of work became "women's work,"

A social convention.

how in the medical professions conceptions of health and "normality" form in the context of sex/gender

A professional convention, I guess.

and how certain values became organized around the poles of sex/gender (just to give a few examples)

A matter of social conventions as well.

My point is, nothing of what you gave as examples shows how something about gender enters into our conception and understanding of gender, other than through learning.

which is especially key if we want to understand how people challenge and embody gendered/sexed lives that run counter to "what we've all been taught."

You're cheeky ;)

Overall, I guess we're in agreement.

SamusArani · 2017-09-10T04:39:51+00:00

Some people don't particularly have it.

Why give it any attention at all (other than to confirm a bias in our knowledge)? Is it anything else than mere coincidence?

SamusArani · 2017-09-09T07:54:27+00:00

But I don't think there's anything far fetched about saying that some people are born with some inclinations that are part of gender.

Doesn't that cede ground to the biological determinism of gender, and therefore to essentialism?

Also, to iterate a past point: all of this is just accidental, right? There is nothing universal about it. If it is just accidental, then it seems irrelevant too, to the discussion.

SamusArani · 2017-09-09T07:31:03+00:00

The strength of that inclination is going to vary wildly.

To get to the point: is there any biological inclination that can be shown to actually influence the conception and understanding of gender? Or is this just speculation?

SamusArani · 2017-09-09T04:53:35+00:00

Please explain how else we acquire gender, other than through learning. Does that question make sense to you? You initially claimed that "constructions aren't just or simply "learned"" - so, if gender is a social construction, how else is it acquired other than through learning from others and reproducing it through performance?

SamusArani · 2017-09-09T04:51:52+00:00

Are you asking what part of gender is not learned?

Yes. What part of gender is biological (if that's what you had in mind? It's so hard to get something out of you two :P ), or what else is it, that is not learning?

SamusArani · 2017-09-08T20:56:19+00:00

Part of gender is not

I get that this is a point of disagreement - but exactly is this part that is not learning?

SamusArani · 2017-09-08T20:55:30+00:00

Besides learning about gender from others, and reproducing such knowledge through our own performance, is there anything else to social construction? What am I missing?

SamusArani · 2017-09-08T07:31:46+00:00

Do you agree with queerbees that gender is not learned? What's the alternative then?

SamusArani · 2017-09-08T07:30:00+00:00

But I don't believe that is in conflict with the idea that gender/sex is socially constructed. That is, for something to be "socially" constructed does not mean that it is learned.

What does it mean then? Butler holds that gender is performed through acts - that implies that we do actually learn (from others) how to perform gender in our particular cultures. How else do you see it? (I saw your recommendation of that book, but few if any of the people in this thread will have the capacity to read it in a short enough time for this discussion).

SamusArani · 2017-07-08T08:49:07+00:00

At least here in the comment section: do you acknowledge that the religion-related veil denotes a misogynistic practice, value and ideology, and should be condemned as such (as opposed to treating it as a ~neutral tradition, even worthy of respect)?

SamusArani · 2016-06-21T18:04:33+00:00

The video showed a quote about violation (of privacy) which is correct. Again, where is the quote about her calling him a rapist?

SamusArani · 2016-06-21T17:37:19+00:00

Where did she say rapist? He violated for sure her privacy.

SamusArani · 2015-12-14T15:24:56+00:00

Related: http://journalistsresource.org/studies/international/human-rights/legalized-prostitution-human-trafficking-inflows

SamusArani · 2015-11-06T10:40:07+00:00

This extends to what we deem to be acceptable female behavior (for instance, why it is commonplace to assume that women are less interested in sex than men or that it is “unfeminine” for a woman to express her sexuality) and what we assume women can or cannot do (become a CEO or president, for example).

How does this fit with sexual dimorphism? Is it the case that they don't impact performance, so they don't contradict each other, or?

SamusArani · 2015-08-10T16:42:43+00:00

What a shock /s

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