I don't know, I think CL has a point as far as I don't see biological sex as a social construct. As I've said before your genitals are very real natural things, as are the hormones they produce and the secondary sex characteristics those hormones produce. I don't think society will ever be a sexless society where "men" and "women" cease to exist in favour of "human with penis" and "human with vagina", the biological differences are too pronounced.
Gender roles are a social construct though, once you start getting into "women should wear makeup, and men should have short hair, and high heels are for women!". Those are social constructs, and if you look at history and even different cultures today you can see different interpretations of masculinity and femininity. 18th Century French men wore long curled wigs, ancient Egyptian men wore skirts and make-up, and high heels were initially worn exclusively by men for horse riding in The Middle East.
Gender roles are a social construct though, once you start getting into "women should wear makeup, and men should have short hair, and high heels are for women!". Those are social constructs, and if you look at history and even different cultures today you can see different interpretations of masculinity and femininity. 18th Century French men wore long curled wigs, ancient Egyptian men wore skirts and make-up, and high heels were initially worn exclusively by men for horse riding in The Middle East.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
