Posted on 05/17/2016 4:59:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
One of the most harmful and also false ideas that liberals have introduced to American culture is the idea that gender is nothing more than a “social construct.” Put another way, there’s no real difference between men and women; we just think there are differences because we accept illogical cultural norms that have been passed down through the years.
This is a “the moon is made out of green cheese” grade dumb concept; yet and still this idea undergirds liberal feminism. If a man can do it, then a woman can do it just as well, even if we’re talking about the military, firemen or being a cop. It’s the core concept that allows liberals to try to present transgenderism as a civil rights issue instead of a mental health issue. Undoubtedly, it’s also part of the reason you see so many sad, lost, nearly androgynous young men these days. If being a man doesn’t mean anything, why go through the work of taking on masculine traits?
The sleight of hand that liberals use to promote this obviously foolish idea is to point out that different cultures have different definitions of what constitutes manliness. To many Americans, enduring boot camp and becoming a soldier is a great way to prove your masculinity. To become a man in the Sateré-Mawé tribe, a boy must stick his hand in a glove full of venomous ants with incredibly painful bites and hold it there. On the Greek island of Kalymnos, manhood is proven via deep diving without equipment. Those men consider using diving equipment for safety to be effeminate.
You could be the epitome of manhood in America without ever allowing yourself to be bitten by venomous ants or a man’s man in the Sateré-Mawé tribe without ever deep diving; so doesn’t that mean gender is a social construct?
No, stupid.
As Jack Donovan has noted, “Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor are the alpha virtues of men all over the world. “ A hard-assed American drill sergeant might think it’s dumb as dirt to stick your hand in a glove full of Bullet Ants, but I can guaran-damn-tee you he has a certain level of manly respect for a guy who’s tough enough to do it.
Moreover, there are no cultures anywhere where let’s say someone like Justin Bieber would be considered manly while someone like John Wayne would be considered feminine. Similarly, there are no cultures like the fictitious Amazons where women do the fighting while the men hang back. In the early 1900s, explorer Ernest Shackleton needed volunteers for a South Pole expedition. He placed an advertisement that read like so in the London Times: “Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful; honor and recognition in case of success.” The following day, over 5000 men showed up to volunteer.
Note that 5000 MEN showed up to volunteer. In no culture in the world would women ever be the majority of people showing up for something like that. Not today, not last year, not at any point in history. Yet, if gender really were merely social construct, we’d expect to see women making up the majority of warriors, hunters and the people doing backbreaking, dangerous jobs SOMEWHERE. Along the same lines, there’s no culture where men do the majority of the child rearing. If gender is really just a random, illogical series of habits that civilizations pick up, then we SHOULD see a lot more overlap, but we don’t – and we never will.
Part of this is based on the very real physical differences between men and women. Men are taller, bigger, have more muscle mass. In violent confrontations with men or in tasks that require great strength, very few women can hope to compete with even the average male. This is the same across all cultures and it has helped create different incentives for men and woman. Men have been and still are the ones who do dirty, dangerous and violent work. Men who are good at it are admired by other men and sought out by women. Equivalently, women are admired for their beauty and their feminine wiles. Again, this is something you’ll find across all cultures which again shows you that gender is not a social construct. Instead it’s an outgrowth of biological reality.
Convenient as it may be to liberalism to pretend that there’s no difference between men and women, it’s not good for society. We already have women being forced to share the bathroom with men who “feel” like women today. By the way, we’re not likely to stop with that bit of silliness as this excerpt of my interview with Kathy Shaidle shows,
Well, knowing that I collect these things so that I can write about them for Taki’s, one of my old friends, a former blogger, said, “You’ll like this.” He e-mailed me this link to a Reddit room where everybody is chatting about these really weird people. Now we’ve all heard about a man trapped in a woman’s body and so forth. Well, like I said earlier, there are people who feel the need to just keep pushing this sort of thing because the thrill of that has worn off socially. So there are people who believe that they’re -- say, black, disabled women in white male bodies or they believe that they are a planet or they believe that they are an alien. Now I met some of the “I think I’m an alien” people years ago.
Hey, wait a second. What bathroom do those people get?
Well, that’s just it; they’re going to have to put a little picture of like a gray alien on one of the doors or something like that. ..They all get together and some people think they’re animals. And I don’t mean furries which we’ve seen on CSI or whatever. These are people who don’t necessarily dress up as animals. They think, “I am a fox” and, “I know I look like a person, but I am a fox.”
Yes, one day you may be threatened with prosecution by some liberal for refusing to refer to a woman who believes she’s a fox by her animal name “Arf Arf.” That’s not a future any of us should want.
This is how Post-Structuralism (Deconstructionism) works. War is peace, right is wrong ...
I have met one or two of those people too.
It all started by changing a term denoting physical traits; i.e., sex, with a grammatical term, denoting linguistic differences; i.e., gender. One of the best illustrations of deconstructionism available.
Sorry, John; but gender is a social construct.
Sex, however, is not.
We are already killing babies, that are called non-babies, for profit.
Now, we are being indoctrinated by those we elected, that there is no difference between male and female. That means that there can be no founded explanation for childbirth of the human race.
This is not the queer agenda, it is the toe in the doorway of population control through the acceptance of NO childbirth, because it would be illegal to be either a male or a female.
That we are even having this insane discussion now makes me think it might simply be inevitable. This reminds me of 15-20 years before ‘gay marriage’ was finally just imposed like it really wasn’t a big deal or whatever. What, are we going to have state referendums on if we dig men using women’s sex exclusive areas or not? That sounds familiar.
Freegards
In the fifties we were taught in grade school that gender was a term that applied to words, not people. Now it appears that advanced degree holders don’t understand that.
Of course neither is race but we keep pretending that doesn't exist either.
actually “gender” is a construct.
sex is biology and corrct term.
Gender is a construct and is whatever people want to believe about it.
Like the tooth-fairy, another construct.
Sorry, Liberals, But Gender Sex Is Not a “Social Construct”.
The word gender has to do with grammar, not the sex of humans unless you are obsessed with political correctness.
I teach a college level Introduction to Sociology course. And the textbook (Macionis’ “Introduction to Sociology” a standard textbook)) states clearly that Gender is mainly a “social construct.”
Students are being indoctrinated with this.
Sex is the word used to describe the distinction between male and female. There are only two sexes.
Gender refers to Spanish nouns. It has nothing to do with humans.
The Gender movement exists because the left hates the words “male and female he created them.”
I don’t recall hearing the word “Gender” 10 years ago.
Think sex is a superfluity? Three words: national football league. When a female goes to the super bowl as a starting O lineman, women will have proved equality
Bingo. Denying what you were created to be is the ultimate rebellion against the Creator.
Liberal logic: we have to segregate based on race for the comfort and safety of ethnic minorities, but we don’t have to segregate for the safety and comfort of the female sex
Your BC tells your gender. It is never wrong.
Dunno, John Wayne never underwent the ant test.
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