The Most Misunderstood Philosopher in the World
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And to any of the smart arses thinking they have you snookered by asking you "What is a woman?" .... just quote the magnificent revolutionary Simone de Beauvoir:
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."
To which Mothra adds .... and all that that means. Imagine. I don't even know all that that means.
Now try to get a pollie to fit it into a sentence for a zinger for a News Corp reporter.
... or Frank.
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."
To which Mothra adds .... and all that that means. Imagine. I don't even know all that that means.
Now try to get a pollie to fit it into a sentence for a zinger for a News Corp reporter.
... or Frank.
Squire
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The video is too long.
The argument appears to be that one can choose whether to be a woman and conversely, whether to be a man.
It is an interesting concept in the fight for equality and justice.
However, women can only be truly liberated if conception and gestation are automated and performed by machines totally freeing women from the implied duty of birthing, nurturing, perpetuating, and expanding the human race.
However, if ever the human race embraces such a state it will have made itself redundant because the machines will be in control of mankind's destiny.
The argument appears to be that one can choose whether to be a woman and conversely, whether to be a man.
It is an interesting concept in the fight for equality and justice.
However, women can only be truly liberated if conception and gestation are automated and performed by machines totally freeing women from the implied duty of birthing, nurturing, perpetuating, and expanding the human race.
However, if ever the human race embraces such a state it will have made itself redundant because the machines will be in control of mankind's destiny.
greggerypeccary
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Some mothers do av em
That's kinda it in a very loose sense but it's more that gender roles, and all we understand to be that which defines men and women is a manufactured concept. We impose these rules on our children and they carry us into adulthood and through life.
One of the more sinister aspects of colonialism was the enforcing of binary gender roles onto cultures who had very different concepts of gender roles. if any. For instance, there are many cultures in which there are more than 2 genders. That took deprogramming and reprogramming. And they did it without practicing first. So. like so many consequences of colonialism, it left a mark.
Hat tip to Frank.
But is is much more complicated than that ... and while i agree that it is over an hour long, i found myself captivated. I especially like the author's encapsulating the concept of philosophical phantasms to general approach of these concepts. It explains so much to me. I recommend it to anyone who wants an actual understanding of gender philosophy. As a garden variety woman, i found it in alignment with an abundance of my own ideas. Absolute grass roots feminism. Grass roots civil rights. Grass root Stonewall.
As to women not being equal until childbirth is shared .. just fuck off with that. Our reproductive cycles are not nor should they be seen to a disadvantage. For instance, as a woman, i have a pretty spectacular pain threshold and endurance you wouldn't believe. That's hard wired. And the time i spent in pregnancy and childbirth are precious to me. But if you mean that all choices regarding reproduction should the ultimate choice of the child bearer, then we agree. If you mean we are disabled by this ability, then you need very desperately to realign your judgments. We are only "disabled" by a patriarchal society that doesn't value it highly enough to do anything other than pass value judgements. Never in my life did i feel more judged than when i was pregnant. More scrutinized.
And all child bearers say that.
