The idea that “gender is fluid” that people repeat these days with the smugness of those who have finally found the Fount of Truth in a desert of ignorance only exists because it serves the needs of capital to get us to buy more crap and embrace fluidity.
It is not a coincidence that the idea only arose when and where gender stopped meaning anything but the stuff you buy. In the places where gender means more than consumer choices, nobody is embracing its fluidity.
The more eager we are to believe that everything is fluid, the more useful we are to liquid capital.
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I have noticed that the term female presenting people has replaced the word women on large sections of the English language internet. I am wondering if something wierd happened after I left the US?
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Yes. I try to avoid such freaks as much as possible.
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Jesus, Clarissa. You do realize you’re calling my kid a freak?
I’m going to ask you one more time to do more research. You really have no idea what you’re talking about.
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This actually is part of my research. I’m writing a talk for a conference and these posts are how I prepare.
What this has to do with your kid whom I never met is a mystery. I’m writing about the characters of a novel by Spanish writer Alicia Gimenez Bartlett.
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If gender is just some rationalized collection of consumer choices, doesn’t it justify discrimination in some respects?
It’s just funny to me that my choice of shaving cream means I’m not expressing my gender correctly. There’s some quite silly market segmentation going on with consumer products.
People confuse gender flexibility with the flexibility of expression of that gender.
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If I choose to manifest my gender by, say, presenting myself at job interviews in an enormous decolletage and 3 lbs of makeup, this will definitely have consequences.
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