(October 13, 2016 at 4:29 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Part One deserves a second more throughout reading on my part. They seemed to agonize quite a bit about the difficulty of defining subtle distinctions between sexual desire, sexual orientation, and sexual identity. That parsing continued in part Three with respect to gender identity. It seems to me that trying to define these terms is highly problematic, maybe even impossible, without making reference to some kind of essentialism.
That's where I'm up to and that's what I'm actually finding quite interesting (sorry Rhythm but I am). Being a reductionist, it is interesting to see how the terms are used to mean different things and in the interest of clarity it's always good to be sure of your definitions... something I perhaps don't do enough in general.
