I guess I missed those 2nd wave arguments; I'm still kind of bewildered by the idea.
A society which doesn't care whether your bits are dangly or not wouldn't have any way to differentiate who you sleep with.
Sure they would. Unless by "truly non-sexist" and/or "without gender difference" you mean "incapable of telling the genders apart at all." Which would make getting pregnant kind of dicey.
Contrariwise, if we weren't so caught up with policing who we slept with, there wouldn't be so much need to differentiate people based on their dangly bits.
Maybe not as much, but there's still be lots of reasons. Maybe if the society had started out that way, it'd be different, but there are all kinds of reasons for men to prefer women in a subservient role that have nothing to do with sleeping with them and everything to do with money and political power and generalized fear of the feminine. There are lots of gay men who are madly sexist, and it certainly isn't because they're worried about sleeping with women.
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Date: 2008-03-26 03:23 pm (UTC)A society which doesn't care whether your bits are dangly or not wouldn't have any way to differentiate who you sleep with.
Sure they would. Unless by "truly non-sexist" and/or "without gender difference" you mean "incapable of telling the genders apart at all." Which would make getting pregnant kind of dicey.
Contrariwise, if we weren't so caught up with policing who we slept with, there wouldn't be so much need to differentiate people based on their dangly bits.
Maybe not as much, but there's still be lots of reasons. Maybe if the society had started out that way, it'd be different, but there are all kinds of reasons for men to prefer women in a subservient role that have nothing to do with sleeping with them and everything to do with money and political power and generalized fear of the feminine. There are lots of gay men who are madly sexist, and it certainly isn't because they're worried about sleeping with women.