Thursday Link Encyclopedia and Self-Promotion | Clarissa's Blog
In general, too, the more you divide the world into explanatory categories of gender, the less you can come to grips with its complexities. For instance, one might notice a difficult person or a difficult text and then immediately resort to a platitude about gender. For instance if and when I express the view that if people do not like something, they should take the time to ask a question and/or give a considered response, some people imply that I am only saying that because of my gender. That is like saying that only women ask for intellectual complexity and engagement, actually, although at the level of petty minds and petty interpretations, to request anything more than one has already been given is deemed to be "whining".
So eventually it becomes even impossible to say anything intelligible to those whose primarily mode of thinking concerns gender.
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