--- On Tue, 18/11/08, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.
To: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, 18 November, 2008, 11:48 AM
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Nishant Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Charles Haynes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Gender is a social construct.
> >
> >
> > Er, Charles, not entirely...that sentence, as it stands, is all
balls!
> >
>
> Hi Deepa, I am very intrigued by this response. If you oppose the idea
that
> "gender is a social construct" I was curious as to how you
define gender.
> Through long years of reading feminist theory and women's studies
writing,
> one has now almost internalised the fact that Gender, as we understand it,
> is nothing but a social construct. While I personally find it difficult to
> take the "sex (noun) is a social construct", I am quite in
wonder why you
> would resist the same argument around Gender.
>
> cheers
> Nishant
Nishant....nothing to be intrigued about, I was just joking, that gender is
determined by the parts of one's body, too! :)
I saw a wonderful documentary at the Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival:
"Peforming the Goddess: The Chapal Bhaduri Story"....and Chapal talks
about
being "feminine" and "masculine" and about human
relationships..the whole
thing interlaced with the need to earn money. A great documentary, and very
moving indeed.
Deepa.
Aaah, now I get it: something on the lines of "If my uncle's plumbing had been
different, he'd have been my aunt."
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