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2	Teaching "gender is only an oppressive social construct" nonsense just got banned in Australia Disjointing sex and gender i think is important, because they are different things and if they're confused too much with one another you get the very harsh historical judgment of anyone who breaks the norm as "unnatural" or freakish. If we assume every sex difference is biological in its root then there's a significant risk that we stagnate and limit one another (both ways!) from being whomever we want to. Dude wants to wear a dress? Let him. Girl wants to be an engineer? Let her. Splintering it…	/r/PussyPassDenied	13/02/17 10:17 PM
2	Teaching "gender is only an oppressive social construct" nonsense just got banned in Australia Right, but nobody has actually contested that some things might be inherently more biased towards either gender based on biology. However, the social aspect of a behaviour and the biological basis that supports (some not all) gendered behaviour are meaningfully different. So we have different words for them. Gender differences for the social aspect and sex differences for the biological aspect. Saying biology explains the origin of (some) gendered behaviour is not a disproval of gender as a conc…	/r/PussyPassDenied	13/02/17 07:40 PM
3	Teaching "gender is only an oppressive social construct" nonsense just got banned in Australia So what qualifies as a "gendered activity" then? If a kid goes out to buy clothes and consistently turns down anything that's pink, is that not influenced by gender? Social norms and social behaviour are two sides of the same coin. You can't just limit valid gendered activities to any activity that happens to fit with your narrative. Gender (as the word is used in scientific discourse) is a subcategory of social norms. By its semantic definition.	/r/PussyPassDenied	13/02/17 07:02 PM
10	Teaching "gender is only an oppressive social construct" nonsense just got banned in Australia Preferences and activities are effectively the same though. If social aspects can influence preferences they can neccessarily influence activities, and vice versa. "Liking blue" (attitude) can easily be turned into "picks the blue clothes over the pink ones" (activity). As for the gravitation thing, I'm not speaking about every single individual, I'm speaking of societies across time. If all gender differences, as he suggests, had their origin in some biological determinant then we would not see…	/r/PussyPassDenied	13/02/17 05:27 PM
14	Teaching "gender is only an oppressive social construct" nonsense just got banned in Australia But... He says that "Gender as a social construct is only validated in social sciences." Which is to say that Gender, defined as the social differences between sexes that arise without any biological factors involved, does not exist. So i gave a concrete example of what differences between sexes have clearly changed based on social factors. How is that a strawman? He says "X never happens". I said "What about this then?". How is that a strawman?	/r/PussyPassDenied	13/02/17 04:46 PM
5	Teaching "gender is only an oppressive social construct" nonsense just got banned in Australia So are you suggesting that the "blue for boys, pink for girls" thing has always been true throughout history?	/r/PussyPassDenied	13/02/17 04:32 PM
1	Teaching "gender is only an oppressive social construct" nonsense just got banned in Australia The conclusion "certain aspects of differences between sexes are social rather than biological in their origin" is a very basic statement that is extremely easy to prove with a single glance at other cultures or history. From that conclusion to "maybe we should make a distinction between those" seems like a reasonable leap. I'm curious in what way you suggest the "conclusion came before the data" in this case.	/r/PussyPassDenied	13/02/17 04:29 PM
3	Teaching "gender is only an oppressive social construct" nonsense just got banned in Australia A suggestion would be to not make firm assertions on the internet on a topic where you're not even familiar with basic terminology.	/r/PussyPassDenied	13/02/17 04:26 PM