RE: A contradiction in the liberal view of gender
August 23, 2017 at 12:54 pm
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2017 at 1:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
An acceptance of how things are as opposed to how we wish them to be isn't an inconsistency. I wish that everyone had food to eat. They don't. My plan to then get food to those I can does not, somehow, express an inconsistency in my stated ideology of "everyone should have food" by fiat of the fact that I cannot and do not even try to get food to everyone.
You're looking for a way, in this, to preserve your initial opinion of a contradiction - which was simply and flatly wrong. The "liberal view" of gender you stated was that gender is arbitrary. It is - not that gender was invalid, it simply isn't. It;s not that people are supporting invalid genders, they are supporting a persons right to choose between arbitrary genders. Theres a reason that people view gender in whatever way they view it. It;s cultural, and variable. Thusly, juxtaposed against biological sex - it is arbitrary. The gender that like musicals and is afraid of spiders may be..depending on the cultural referant, male -or- female. In one culture it's women..in another, men. Some people identify with the gender construct to which..in thir culture, members of the opposite biological sex are generally born.
Get it?
The "most logical answer" is that gender is a construct, and I have no reason to prevent a person from living as and being seen as whatever construct it is they identify with. Further, I have ethical reason -not- to prevent them from doing so. After all....no one;s preventing me from living as a male - whatever that means to me...right? It's a right that I take for myself - and so one I extend to others.
You're looking for a way, in this, to preserve your initial opinion of a contradiction - which was simply and flatly wrong. The "liberal view" of gender you stated was that gender is arbitrary. It is - not that gender was invalid, it simply isn't. It;s not that people are supporting invalid genders, they are supporting a persons right to choose between arbitrary genders. Theres a reason that people view gender in whatever way they view it. It;s cultural, and variable. Thusly, juxtaposed against biological sex - it is arbitrary. The gender that like musicals and is afraid of spiders may be..depending on the cultural referant, male -or- female. In one culture it's women..in another, men. Some people identify with the gender construct to which..in thir culture, members of the opposite biological sex are generally born.
Get it?
The "most logical answer" is that gender is a construct, and I have no reason to prevent a person from living as and being seen as whatever construct it is they identify with. Further, I have ethical reason -not- to prevent them from doing so. After all....no one;s preventing me from living as a male - whatever that means to me...right? It's a right that I take for myself - and so one I extend to others.
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