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Gender Critical or ",GC" as a term, do you like it?

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Mayyouleave · 23/08/2024 00:53

Do you like the term "Gender Critical" or "GC"? I've seen a lot of people saying that "GC" isn't a movement. I think it is.
Be great to get a discussion going on this.

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Mayyouleave · 23/08/2024 01:45

Brainworm

I think the term is definitely being used by people who do think gender is innate, i.e. women's role is to have children and raise them, and women should be feminine.
I think this is in part the reason why some women don't like the term Gender Critical.

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Rymeswithpunt · 23/08/2024 01:45

Brainworm · 23/08/2024 01:30

Like many terms, I think it means different things to different people.

I think many people have come to think of it as communicating scepticism or denial of gender identity.

I think its origins lay in critiquing gender and rejecting gender norms are viewing them as limiting/repressing both women and men. However, some people who say they are GC do so from a position of accepting gender norms and thinking of them as essential/natural - which I don't think fits with the term's origins.

I don't think any gender critical person believes gender stereotypes are essential, if they did they would not be gender critical would they, they'd be something else surely

Rymeswithpunt · 23/08/2024 01:43

Tooting33 · 23/08/2024 01:14

I think rational covers it perfectly well. GC makes sense but does feel slightly awkward to me, as though it's unusual to think sex based stereotypes are restrictive.

Or 'not a deluded mentalist' as someone on here once said.

Brainworm · 23/08/2024 01:30

Like many terms, I think it means different things to different people.

I think many people have come to think of it as communicating scepticism or denial of gender identity.

I think its origins lay in critiquing gender and rejecting gender norms are viewing them as limiting/repressing both women and men. However, some people who say they are GC do so from a position of accepting gender norms and thinking of them as essential/natural - which I don't think fits with the term's origins.

annejumps · 23/08/2024 01:21

I think it means approaching the concept of gender—which I take to mean stereotypes assigned to a sex—critically, that is, thoughtfully. It's interesting watching people try to clutch pearls and make it the most nefarious dogwhistle they can come up with.

XChrome · 23/08/2024 01:19

It seems to be the most commonly used term and I'm good with it. Yes, it is a movement. I think of myself as a gender agnostic because I don't have an opinion on whether gender exists. But since I'm critical of fanatical beliefs about gender being pushed on people as fact, it works for me.

Blackcats7 · 23/08/2024 01:14

No I don’t like it. I prefer to say biological realist.

Tooting33 · 23/08/2024 01:14

I think rational covers it perfectly well. GC makes sense but does feel slightly awkward to me, as though it's unusual to think sex based stereotypes are restrictive.

Rymeswithpunt · 23/08/2024 00:57

Yeah, its fine with me. Maybe gender atheist also is good?