Intro to GC?

[loretta81]

The concept of GC is totally new to me.

Who are the key feminists to read who hold this view?

Do you think GC is the "mainstream" feminist view in the UK?

What would you say are the characteristics of people who hold this view? Eg age, education, etc.

Thanks so much, I'm really intrigued.

@Delphinium20 I find "bollocks" is a good one too. Not enough people saying "bollocks" to things these days.

@bourbonne "bollocks" is so cool...it's words like that and "rubbish" and "bloody" that make me think I'm an Anglophile.

You know that scene in Love Actually when the young man goes to Wisconsin, US and impresses the young women with his Britishisms...I'm equally impressed.

@Delphinium20 that's made my evening... A nice change from the slightly appalled silence that my declarations of "bollocks to that" are sometimes met with!

Six years in the gender wars by Sarah Ditum is useful background to the current situation:

sarahditum.com/2018/09/10/six-years-in-the-gender-wars/

Sex is biology. Gender is a set of social rules imposed on people because of their sex. The rules are used to place limits on women and girls. Feminists have always said our sex shouldn't limit us - that gender isn't real. Feminism is gender critical by default.

As TheInebriati says. It’s as simple as that. I’ve been feminist all my life but had never heard the expression “gender critical” till a couple of years ago, I still don’t see how any feminist can think “if a man says he’s a woman then he is a woman”. It’s the opposite of feminism.