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, theres 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 were talking about the military, firemen or being a cop. Its the core concept that allows liberals to try to present transgenderism as a civil rights issue instead of a mental health issue. Undoubtedly, its also part of the reason you see so many sad, lost, nearly androgynous young men these days. If being a man doesnt 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 mans man in the Sateré-Mawé tribe without ever deep diving; so doesnt 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 its 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 whos tough enough to do it.
Moreover, there are no cultures anywhere where lets 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, wed expect to see women making up the majority of warriors, hunters and the people doing backbreaking, dangerous jobs SOMEWHERE. Along the same lines, theres 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 dont 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 youll find across all cultures which again shows you that gender is not a social construct. Instead its an outgrowth of biological reality.
Convenient as it may be to liberalism to pretend that theres no difference between men and women, its not good for society. We already have women being forced to share the bathroom with men who feel like women today. By the way, were 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 Takis, one of my old friends, a former blogger, said, Youll like this. He e-mailed me this link to a Reddit room where everybody is chatting about these really weird people. Now weve all heard about a man trapped in a womans 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 theyre -- 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 Im an alien people years ago.
Hey, wait a second. What bathroom do those people get?
Well, thats just it; theyre 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 theyre animals. And I dont mean furries which weve seen on CSI or whatever. These are people who dont 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 shes a fox by her animal name Arf Arf. Thats not a future any of us should want.
I am not an English major but I know the difference between the words "sex" and "gender."
I really get perturbed when I see the term "gender" used when the correct word should be "sex."
Using the word "sex" now seems to be exclusively for the act of procreation and is almost taboo. I get tired of filling out forms that ask me my gender rather than my sex.
“Gender” actually IS a social construct.
NOUNS have genders. People have sexes. Two of them, to be exact.
“Gender is a social construct, sex is not.”
Whaaaat?????
Just asking.
Gender is a biological reality.
If you really want to believe that it is a social construct, just look at animals. Animals do not have social constructs, yet they have very clear male behaviors and female behaviors.
I have been watching the geese from my window at work. They all look alike, but there is one goose showing a bunch of tiny fuzzy geese how to forage in the grass, while another goose never eats, but stands with head up, watching for danger. The adult geese look identical, but if I had to guess, I would say that the teacher is the mamma, and the guard is the poppa.
If gender were purely a social construct, you would see no difference in behavior between male and female animals.
Bruce Jenner would agree whole-heartedly that men are different from women. People like him feel gender differences a lot more strongly than other people. They just think that their birth biology puts them in the wrong category. I’m not saying Jenner’s right about any of that, just questioning whether the writer’s argument really follows from his premises.
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