Re:MIT Faculty Votes for Statement on Freedom of Expression ...
by MrScruff on Monday December 26, 2022 @05:35AM
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If gender is a social construct (an idea which I'm sympathetic to), shouldn't it just go away entirely? I'm happy to move towards a society where we abandon stereotypes of masculine and feminine behaviour, I just don't understand how that's compatible with saying 'I wish to identify as a different gender because my behaviours match the stereotype of that gender.'. Doesn't that just reinforce those stereotypes?
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Re:MIT Faculty Votes for Statement on Freedom of Expression ...
by notSupplied on Monday December 26, 2022 @02:10PM
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I agree. I wish to go away from traditionalist views “Alice should stop playing with trucks and play with dolls because she is a girl” to “Alice can with trucks if she wants”. But I was shocked to find that instead, some people now believe “Alice is really a boy if she likes playing with trucks”