• 🐱TheCat
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    1 year ago

    I think people should think of gender as a spectrum, but what would ‘getting rid of gender’ look like? Are we seperating that from biological sex somehow? Although I am all for men getting asked if they are pregnant as often as I am when trying to access basic health services.

    edit: also just read the firefighter analogy more. Okay but why are you reducing firefighting to physical strength? I’ve heard of cases where fitting through tight spaces were key to a rescue in firefighting. Does that mean I should now reduce firefighting to ‘fits through tight spaces’ requirement and prefer only small people? Be less reductive in your reasoning.

    • psivchaz@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      I have a real hard time with gender and sex because it just seems really weird to me to say “doing this action is feminine.” I thought that the whole progressive movement from the 60s through the early 2000s was about getting rid of the idea that “men do this and women do that.” Everything I do is, by definition, manly, when I, a man, do it.