Sunday 24 March 2013

When gender ideologies erase experience

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“A birth is not supposed to be “beautiful” or “romantic”, you stupid twat.”

One wonders about the judgement of a person whose ideology of femininity exceeds her experience of her own biology. I mean female biology can be, and often is, and extremely violent thing. Giving birth is about the most extreme of the violence of which female biology is capable. It’s not an act of “femininity” in the conventional cultural sense. But then again, if you are female, you ought not to have to be told that.

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