gender deconstruction
May. 14th, 2023 04:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madimpossibledreamerthe only place where terfs/transphobes/gender critical people have anything close to something resembling a point is where they say that the way society has constructed gender it makes some people uncomfortable identifying with their "designated" gender. of course, then they immediately ruin it by going on about how menstruation makes you a woman and having kids is the highest happiness a woman can achieve, and don't mention men at all. toxic masculinity and claiming that being a macho man is the only definition of 'man' is equally bad for men, but they don't talk about that either.
they're being hypocrites by saying "oh, it's bad when society pushes you into neatly defined roles" and then...pushing people, especially women, into neatly defined roles, and then policing it.
we should a) expand and make porous the definitions, so people don't have to feel left out, and b) not be surprised when people still opt for what feels right, because they're the only one who knows themselves best and biology and gender are messy and not as strictly defined as they think.
also honestly using biology as a cover for bigotry is a time-honored custom going back to eugenics and phrenology. they're not new, they're not original, and quite frankly i'm tired of it.
they're being hypocrites by saying "oh, it's bad when society pushes you into neatly defined roles" and then...pushing people, especially women, into neatly defined roles, and then policing it.
we should a) expand and make porous the definitions, so people don't have to feel left out, and b) not be surprised when people still opt for what feels right, because they're the only one who knows themselves best and biology and gender are messy and not as strictly defined as they think.
also honestly using biology as a cover for bigotry is a time-honored custom going back to eugenics and phrenology. they're not new, they're not original, and quite frankly i'm tired of it.
