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[–]Cindy 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

Can someone who is not biologically female be a woman? Is gender binary? Just because you want to eliminate unnecessary gendering does not mean you are a constructivist.

[–]SavvyDiogenes 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Gender" is a nicer way of saying sex stereotypes. That's all it is. "Societal expectations imposed on a sex"=sex stereotypes.

Stereotype

a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

"the stereotype of the woman as the carer"

[–]Sun_bear 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No someone cannot be a women if they are not biologically female. Sex is binary. Gender is a made up thing opposed upon us which we would like to abolish.

[–]ruskiix 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

GC feminists believe “woman” is simply the word for an adult human female, nothing more. Your question about gender being binary is a bit confusing—did you read the post? Gender is the tool used to oppress males and females based on the stereotypes for their sex, and nothing more. We don’t believe in an inherent gender essence, everything outside of gender stereotypes (which are binary in our society, of course) would simply be individual personality. We don’t use “gender” to describe the nature of a person.

Could you explain what you mean by constructivist in this context?

[–]Maeven 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We're against redefining woman as an arbitrary category of gender woowoo. Having language specific to sex categories is important and we're trying to defend it.