Ask A Genius 182 – Gender Equity and Similarity (Part 2)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/05/29
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Rick Rosner: Nobody – I don’t think – or most feminisms are not wedded to the idea of ungendered upbringings or some natural state of ungenderedness, which is only formed via exposure to a sexist culture.
That is an old debunked thing that nobody is arguing about now. That gets brought up by anti-feminists to show that feminism is pursuing some creepy ass agenda. And nah! I don’t think so. People tried it a little bit.
Some people, they found out that people are gendered. That working to treat people as if they’re ungendered or to make them ungendered is not the agenda of feminism, but anti-feminists treat it as it is – as if everyone would walk around in the same jump suit.
Heaven forbid if you wear high heels and lipstick. That’s not feminism. That’s an unfair characterization of it, I think.
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