• IzzyScissor@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    If “your man card can be revoked” then you understand that gender is performative and conditional.

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      9 months ago

      I understand that gender is made up and doesn’t matter. There is nothing girly or manly.

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      9 months ago

      For some the optionality of it is less important than the notion that if it’s performative, you can be bad at it and therefore make yourself an acceptable target for abuse, and besides that the idea that some roles can be restricted to only those with a certain set of physical characteristics is deeply ingrained in many, be that in terms gender, career, or what have you.

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        9 months ago

        Sooo what if a dude just decides to act like, dress like, and call themselves like a girl? Why would they not be allowed to do that? What about the laws of the universe takes away their agency to do that?

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        9 months ago

        Is this the most terminally online possible way of saying “gender is a social construct and I’m a gender abolitionist”?

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        9 months ago

        I’m entirely for gender abolitionism, but you really need to find some better rhetoric. “Cope and seethe, your arguments are shit” won’t work on most people