On 10/25/2013 7:35 PM, Risker wrote:
It's controversial because there are women who assumed a male role,
but were definitely women in their personal life. So your definition
there would be to assign them the male gender but the female sex.
And I disagree....what's being assigned there is sex, not gender.
Risker
It's also controversial because some feminists have questioned various
aspects of this promotion of gender over sex and been highly abused for
it, from name calling to shutting down speeches and conferences, to
creating phony highly bigoted websites and letters and threats
pretending to be written by radical feminists, to death threats as some
of the articles below describe. I haven't studied enough to have a
definitive opinion on it all myself, though I appreciate many radical
feminist statements.
Four good counterpunch articles
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/07/the-left-hand-of-darkness/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/11/these-are-not-the-radicals-youre-looking-for/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/21/55123/ The Emperor’s New Penis
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/02/sex-is-not-gender/ Best one of four
Statement by radical feminists
http://www.pandagon.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/GENDER-Statement.pdf?f9e4e1
Which has been authenticated here as not being a fake document put
together by those who harass them:
http://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/authenticity-of-the-forbidden-discourse-the-silencing-of-feminist-critique-of-gender-statement-has-been-confirmed/
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