What is "biological reductivism"?

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I always thought that biological reductionism was when you said things like "girly brains are good for needlepoint"... There seems to be a version of that that I've seen around recently saying that "women's rights" are not based on biology. So if they're not, what are they based on? And if "women's rights" are not based on biology, can we have a separate rights movement that help people who have periods, get pregnant, risk maternal mortality, have FGM.. get trafficked?

WeeBisom and gncq ah- thank you! That makes sense. I think that I'd got mixed up with essentialism and determinism.

Biological reductionism is bollocks.

Hmm interesting.

The gleeful way in which the well established arguments, terms and so on are thrown back in the faces of the groups who conceived them winds me up no end.

I was making a 'reductionist' joke, by the way, in case you hadn't noticed?

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I was making a 'reductionist' joke, by the way, in case you hadn't noticed?

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www.rt.com/usa/506758-uc-berkeley-lavery-book-burning-trans/

Book burning.

Niiiice.

It's the people who say that by defining sex by biological fact you're "reducing women to their reproductive function" or something while they would never say that someone describing themself as Black is to 'reduce someone to their skin colour'.

Yes. They are either stupid, or lying, or both.

Quite.

You said it.

Misogynistic TRAs like Lavery keep telling on themselves. It only 'reduces' women to be defined as female if you believe there is something inherently inferior about the female body.

Very true.

'Cis' requires the belief that most women somehow have an innate female gender that naturally matches their sex and that is biological reductivism in a nutshell.
Always with the darvo, that lot.

Whenever someone advocates burning books or sides with someone who does, they are automatically in the wrong and the debate with them is over. It should be like Godwin's Law. Burn feminist theory but leave Mein Kampf on the bookshelves. Doesn't that just make a statement about the priorities here?

It does. Yes.

And yet calling women uterus-havers or vulva people or menstruators is not reducing someone to their biology or biological functions?