tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8568419039847692717.post1586809994607284002..comments2024-03-25T10:44:07.766-04:00Comments on LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH: Genderqueer? More Like Confused about the Birds and Bees!Mary Ann Kreitzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245237845099708478noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8568419039847692717.post-65088418096626228642014-02-20T01:28:59.632-05:002014-02-20T01:28:59.632-05:00Well it does all get a little fuzzy. Some people d...Well it does all get a little fuzzy. Some people do speak of "multiple genders" as if they were distinct categories like the two sexes.<br /><br />But of course, even these categories are conceptually, ultimately, rooted in the two sexes.<br /><br />By which I mean, when people speak of multiple genders or gender identities, they're talking about there being a multiplicity of genderA Sinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05083094677310915678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8568419039847692717.post-62451208198538480802014-02-19T15:28:44.659-05:002014-02-19T15:28:44.659-05:00We've always had tomboys including several of ...We've always had tomboys including several of my five sisters. The pretense that there are now dozens of "genders" besides male and female is unadulterated nonsense and no amount of highfalutin mumbo- jumbo will make it any less ridiculous to the average person with a little common sense. "God made them male and female." Mary Ann Kreitzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18245237845099708478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8568419039847692717.post-29788580048999462012014-02-19T14:15:19.380-05:002014-02-19T14:15:19.380-05:00No a woman who likes sports doesn't "beco...No a woman who likes sports doesn't "become another gender" because gender is not a "thing" like that. It's not that sort of category and should not be used that way linguistically. Gender is a social "role" assigned to the sexes above and beyond their biological purpose. It's about what you do and how you present, not about what you are (except inasmuch A Sinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05083094677310915678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8568419039847692717.post-1973197011301001102014-02-19T11:44:39.824-05:002014-02-19T11:44:39.824-05:00People have a variety of interests. I don't th...People have a variety of interests. I don't think you can peg most interests as "masculine" or "feminine" to the exclusion of the other sex. Obviously, little boys and little girls play differently because of the way they are made. If my boys were outside they were using sticks for guns and wrestling. The girls were more likely to be making imaginary worlds with the sticksMary Ann Kreitzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18245237845099708478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8568419039847692717.post-34499395935023555412014-02-19T10:49:57.418-05:002014-02-19T10:49:57.418-05:00Well but it does have to do with gender inasmuch a...Well but it does have to do with gender inasmuch as gender is a social system of associations. Historically contingent, constructed associations, between various traits and sex.<br /><br />Your "they have nothing to do with each other" is just as much a deconstruction of these scripts as the more transgressively framed narratives, I might even say "the other side of the coin."A Sinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05083094677310915678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8568419039847692717.post-33792698194923423392014-02-17T13:08:58.180-05:002014-02-17T13:08:58.180-05:00Wow! I'm still trying to figure out what you&#...Wow! I'm still trying to figure out what you're saying with all this psycho-babble. Can you please translate? <br /><br />People can have whatever interests they want. I have a son, a father of four, who loves to cook, coaches soccer, and did an incredible needlepoint of wolves. I have a sister, mom of four, who got her pilot's license. My husband and I square dance and we know peopleMary Ann Kreitzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18245237845099708478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8568419039847692717.post-57758130193479480092014-02-17T12:51:36.842-05:002014-02-17T12:51:36.842-05:00Gender just means the social script for relating t...Gender just means the social script for relating to (the, yes, biological reality of) sex, male and female. In other words, what is "masculine" or "feminine."<br /><br />In times past, the hegemonic scripts were often so dominant (though in many cultures you do actually find "third gender" spaces and identities) that people perhaps saw them as simply equivalent to A Sinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05083094677310915678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8568419039847692717.post-41250743662435297672014-02-16T17:02:36.970-05:002014-02-16T17:02:36.970-05:00I meant phase.I meant phase.Terry Nelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09819523933502820341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8568419039847692717.post-36096424914081130792014-02-16T16:53:55.403-05:002014-02-16T16:53:55.403-05:00I hope you have been reading my stuff on this issu...I hope you have been reading my stuff on this issue - and remember Melinda Selmys and Eve Tushnet and the new homophiles? This is very much part of that - esp. with Selmys. <br /><br />This isn't just a faze or a fad or a confused teenage rebellious stage - this is a very real extension of sexual revolution and radical feminism. Gender is an ideology.Terry Nelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09819523933502820341noreply@blogger.com