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[–]blargus 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ugh! What makes sex and race and sexual orientation important categories to protect against discrimination is that people didn't choose and can't change their sex or race. Women can't just "take off" being a woman and "solve" sexism. Having lived sex or race from birth and being unable to separate from those things are what makes those things those things! It's impossible to understand those things and those perspectives if you aren't those things--growing up as a woman is fundamental to being a woman and shapes who they are as people for example. Anything else is mimicry at best.