Gender is not an identity, it is a tool of patriarchy
Gender hurts
http://gendercriticalgreens.wordpress.com/2016/08/15/a-feminist-view-of-gender-identity-politics/
http://diestoerenfriedas.de/gender-ist-keine-identitaet-es-ist-ein-werkzeug-des-patriarchats-eine-feministische-sicht-auf-genderidentitaetspolitik/
Date Written: 2016-08-15
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX23988
Gender is a set of societally-imposed, socially-constructed norms which are the structure through which all males and females are boxed in, but which, in particular, are the building blocks of the hierarchy between males and females. From a very early age, almost birth, these gender expectations are imposed through the clothes we wear, the toys we play with, the colours that are considered appropriate, the behaviour that is expected of us, the attitudes expressed towards us. They may vary from culture to culture and throughout history but their purpose is the same, to mould us into roles in society. Let’s not swallow patriarchy’s lies, let’s keep asserting that the objective definition of us as a female or a male based on biological reality will never define our personality, our attitudes, our abilities, our desires, our behaviour, our place in the world.
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