RE: The right to mis-define oneself
June 14, 2015 at 11:30 am
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2015 at 11:38 am by Regina.)
I also disagree with the idea that society doesn't still have gender roles in the 21st century
Women are still slut-shamed for taking ownership of their sexuality, while men are "top lads" if they sleep around. Men who don't take an interest in football (talking British football here, not American) are still looked at like "WTF happened to you?". We still have men competing with eachother in petty displays of hypermasculinity and women are still constantly judged on their physical appearance.
But yes, delude yourself we're in a post-gender society
Women are still slut-shamed for taking ownership of their sexuality, while men are "top lads" if they sleep around. Men who don't take an interest in football (talking British football here, not American) are still looked at like "WTF happened to you?". We still have men competing with eachother in petty displays of hypermasculinity and women are still constantly judged on their physical appearance.
But yes, delude yourself we're in a post-gender society
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"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
