On Apr 30, 2010, at 7:55 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> I think it's that are just using a term that was always used.
> Feminists introduced gender to talk about gendered social
> expectations, identities, and so forth to show how there was no one-
> to-one pointer reader relationship between physical sex and the
> habits, identities, etc. we exhibited. Gayle Rubin's seminal essay,
> "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex,"
> argued that the sex/gender systems was a "set of arrangements by
> which a society transforms biological sexuality into products of
> human activity, and in which these transformed sexual needs are
> satisfied".
I doubt the airline industry has been reading Gayle Rubin, as wonderful as she is.
Doug