"Able to get pregant" and "unable to get pregnant" is still a pretty profound difference. It doesn't have to be called "gender" in order to potentially be problematic.
But we have separate bathrooms. Why? Because we assume that people we lust after and who might lust after us won't show up there.
Is that why? I think there might be more to it than that, which may also be sexist and/or heterosexist, but still.
But in a radical feminism, we're not looking at the surface phenomenon but the root causes.
But in order to effect change, you have to understand the world as it is. It's fine to say that in another reality where society had developed differently, a lack of heterosexism would automatically imply a lack of sexism, but the fact is that we live in this reality and this is how society developed, and men have more reasons than sex to want women to remain unequal.
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Date: 2008-03-26 03:54 pm (UTC)But we have separate bathrooms. Why? Because we assume that people we lust after and who might lust after us won't show up there.
Is that why? I think there might be more to it than that, which may also be sexist and/or heterosexist, but still.
But in a radical feminism, we're not looking at the surface phenomenon but the root causes.
But in order to effect change, you have to understand the world as it is. It's fine to say that in another reality where society had developed differently, a lack of heterosexism would automatically imply a lack of sexism, but the fact is that we live in this reality and this is how society developed, and men have more reasons than sex to want women to remain unequal.