Yosano Akiko claimed determining "sex" based on "reproductive roles" is a "mistake", thoughts?

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Yosano Akiko sounds like a TRA, but from the 19th century. It's mentioned here that she believed the male-female categories are "illusory" and "mistaken": https://imgur.com/6ElaVFD

https://archive.md/gnXuL

As if foreseeing the demise of gender and male-female as a binary concept, Yosano Akiko once wrote:

“Is not the distinction made between men and women up until now too superficial and based only on one part? There are men among us who in their facial features, their skin, the timbre of their voice, and even their disposition and feelings are like a woman. And conversely there are women who in all those things are like a man. That is to say, I think that there must be a significant number of men equipped to bear children and also of women who possess the talent to be a writer, a teacher, a farmer, or a philosopher. If we did the necessary theorization and experiments we might discover that distinguishing between men and women only on the basis of their roles in reproduction is a mistake.”

I wanted to know what your thoughts on her and what she said are?

She was a:

Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosano_Akiko

How could she be a "feminist", when she claimed "woman" isn't a thing??

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[–]FlippyKing 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

It's silly. That which is "like" something, and "like" is the word Akiko Yosano used, is not that thing. A man is not like a man, a woman is not like a woman. The use of the word "like" already pulls the rug out from under Akiko's sophistry.

American football is like Rugby, both are like compacting soil. But American football is not Rugby, Rugby is not American Football, and anyone confusing them would be confused. Anyone confusing them asking us to change definitions to relieve their confusion would be laughed at all the way to Canada. Similarly if for some strange reason you wanted to compact soil you would not get an American Football team nor a Rugby team to do it, even though stomping on the ground and tackling people to the ground would compact the soil.

Akiko is like so many people today who save money on cologne or perfume because they love smelling their own farts, but they are all far more interested in what escapes their orafices than any sane person should be.