But does the self have a gender?
April 22, 2016 5:23 AM Subscribe
Lionel Shriver thinks not: "We’re in the process of taking a giant cultural step backwards. The women’s liberation movement of my adolescence advocated a release from gender roles, and now we are entrenching them—pigeonholing ourselves with picayune precision on a continuum of gender identity, as if arriving at the right relationship to cliché is tantamount to self-knowledge."
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I realise I am getting myself into trouble here
Should be the last sentence this person wrote on this topic, well before this article was submitted for publication.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 5:36 AM on April 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
Should be the last sentence this person wrote on this topic, well before this article was submitted for publication.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 5:36 AM on April 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
Yeah, there are some nascent interesting ideas about misogyny and default=masculine, all dished out by, you know, being misogynistic. And then it just gets into willful transphobia and like, really?
posted by fast ein Maedchen at 5:37 AM on April 22, 2016
posted by fast ein Maedchen at 5:37 AM on April 22, 2016
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