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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

The Eclipse of Sex by the Rise of Gender - essay

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FloralBuntingIsObnoxious · 01/03/2019 19:47

Still digesting this.
There's some significant good in it - I particularly like the passage

Masculinity is simply the way of being a man in the world, and is thus uniquely inflected by each individual personality.
Thus, when my husband, Michael, is caring for our children and cooking dinner, these are masculine acts, because they are being performed by a male human being.
Similarly, my femininity is exhibited as much in my assertiveness during a staff meeting as when I am breastfeeding—because it is the person who is gendered, not the act or trait. This embodied, personalist understanding of masculinity and femininity reaffirms the meaning of the sexed body, without collapsing cultural stereotypes into natural categories.

I'm not sure about some of it, but it's worth reading, and I think it's worth rolling some of these ideas around to see what stands up to scrutiny and what doesn't.

churchlife.nd.edu/2019/03/01/the-eclipse-of-sex-by-the-rise-of-gender/

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OhHolyJesus · 01/03/2019 21:41

Thanks OP, I like he message in that extract. Will read it in full when I get the chance. Thanks for sharing.

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