Gender appears to be a kind of difference engine — continually looking at bodies and trying to maximize differences between them, and in some cases inventing them. Why? Because most people find it highly attractive — think of the French saying, “Vive La Difference!”
If you don’t want to take part, if you stand aside, choose parts from both, or just find the whole exercise boring – or as Judith Butler said, ‘comical’ – you are highly stigmatized. Unfortunately, this stigma is still very socially acceptable. Read the rest of this entry »
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