Gender by politics. Found on tiktok
16d 14h ago by lemmy.ca/u/stepan in politicalmemes@lemmy.ca from lemmy.ca
Leave it to radfems to have a fucking child's understanding of sex and gender.
I don't get what the difference is between the gender criticalists and gender essentialism positions on sex and gender are. To me they literally mean the same thing just using fewer words. What's with the dragon meme for the three positions if one of the regular ones and the dumb one is the same?
The only real difference I see is that the gender essentialism and gender critialists base their definitions on physical characteristics and/or appearances while the gender deconstructionists base their definitions on identity (for women, it is a social category identity, and for female, an internal identity or neurological state).
The use of this table format is quite good and I will use it. But again I do not know what the difference is between position 1 and position 3 besides using fewer words and the use of a bottomless pit meme.
I think the joke is that essentialists have consistency at least, while criticalists don't.
Radfems often pick and choose which aspects of gender they want to de-construct. Ie "men can be feminine, but not drag Queen's!"
I don't think they're against drag queens, they view gender as a phenomenon based solely on biological sex. This is why I'm confused. The conservatives would go one step further and say that social roles are also defined on gender/sex (for them they are the same thing), the cons would be against drag queens and nontraditional roles for women. In this way the gender criticalists are "classical liberals" because for them all activity is available for both men and women.
I can see why it seems like picking and choosing deconstructing gender but it is not. The claim of what women and female are is different from the claim of what women and females should be allowed to do.