that statement isn't one that indicates acceptance of the distinction but one that suggests that the distinction is fraudulent. ravi's expl'd offlist but i'm not buying it, not after I explained it months ago and mostly becaseu, again, the tone of the statement is "you guys are fucked up to use it this way. gender means gender. more fucking language games from the pomos.
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Yes. You see, that's just exactly right.
I've been sitting over here in my Dr. No styled swivel chair, petting my cat, Uranium Hexafluoride, trying to figure out what the unhappy hell is irking me so about this thread.
And then, with chocolate flavored aplomb, you hit the target squarely in the center: these gentlemen are not even debating the matter from the same POV as you.
So much time has been spent resisting the flexible use of the word "gender", and turning away - as you might from a performance of Hamlet with Paris Hilton in the role of Ophelia - from an embrace of the feminist understanding of that word that the conversation's become a sort of gravitational singularity.
First, folks would have to review the relevant literature and see what they thought of the leading theories. Then, it would make sense to debate. Otherwise...
And now, back to Alain Badiou with soundtrack by Eisbrecher.
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