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MayAnonymous asked: ok i am on anonymous b/c this might sound ignorant or get misconstrued as, like, an intrusion, but i was wondering what your first language is?
Spanish! n_n
I learnt English about 12 years ago, which is why I sometimes make weird mistakes in my writing, or why it might seem a bit odd at times :]
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MayFirst off, I feel like this is clearly an argument of semantics. The other person pointed out basically what I was already stating with maybe a couple things different.
I’m not saying gender is a choice. Gender is very real and not a choice. However, the way you express gender is. I do, wholeheartedly believe that gender is socially constructed but that it’s not a choice. We were all put into gender categories based upon our biology at birth, clearly not a choice, also how we feel about it isn’t a choice. What we choose to do with that, though, is.
Maybe the fuckery I was talking about was more to do with gender performance and it was what I was thinking about most when I made the post. I’m sorta Judith Butlering here when I say that I do think there are as many gender identities as there are people because every human expresses and feels gender differently. And that’s fine and good. I just find thinking of gender as socially constructed and something to play with is so empowering. Example, I just stopped shaving my arm pits.
I’m also not trying to say that there aren’t oppressions that go with gender roles. There CLEARLY are. Especially for those who are gender deviants.
Tldr; semantics, fuckery.
I think I completely agree with you, this is an argument purely on semantics, but I think even a little ambiguity is still kind of significant in a topic as important to today’s world as this one.
From what I’ve read in your posts I believe that the point you’re making is that the boundaries set by society on how you express your gender are flawed. I, personally, agree 100% with this sentiment. However, I don’t agree with these four words “gender is socially constructed.” The problem lies in the, most likely different, definitions we have of these terms.
First there is gender. To me when the word is used alone, it encompasses all aspects that make up gender (this includes identity). Meaning not only roles or performance, but who you’re attracted to.
Then there is social constructionism. To quote Paul A. Boghossian, “to say something is socially constructed is to say: This thing could not have existed had we not built it; and we need not have built it at all, at least not in its present form. Had we been a different kind of society, had we had different needs, values, or interests, we might well have built a different kind of thing, or built this one differently.”
Gender as an identity that you’re born with would not change if you were born in another culture, if you had different needs, values, or interests. Therefore, the two terms do not go together. It is not something we build, but something that exists on its own. Of course, this only works if you accept both premises for the definitions, which I could very well be wrong about..
(sorry for the long response, this is an interesting topic and I love procrastination)
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MayIf you’re not completely relieved and delighted to know that gender is socially constructed and that you can just play legos with your gender and performance all day long like, what the fuck are you doing?
Sorry but I think that person was right. Gender roles are socially constructed. Meaning that, the things that are seen as the tasks only a woman or a man can do depend only on the culture and have no ground in the reality of limitations. Gender in general is not socially constructed. Yes, it is fluid and everyone has an inherent right to do as they feel. That being said, to say that something is socially constructed is to say that you have a choice. It is problematic to say that you have a choice to be gay or not because it is just not true. There are many who would choose (and are forced) to act outside of their gender identity, and if they could they would choose to belong to another group so as to avoid their suffering. I think your sentiment was right, but your wording was not.
Please don’t take this as me trying to be rude. I’m just trying to clarify the point :]
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May"People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like ‘be realistic.’"
-Dylan Moran
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