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The Second Sex
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Are there women, really?
Like man, woman is a human being
There exist two groups of individuals who are manifestly different
In clothes, faces, bodies, smiles, gaits, interests, and occupations
Females are half of humanity, and yet we are warned that femininity is in danger
But if femininity no longer exists, then it never did
Every human being is a unique, separate individual
Every human being is a unique, separate individual
Every human being is a unique, separate individual
Every human being is a unique, separate individual
What is a woman? A woman is not a man
What is a woman? A woman is not a man
This is more concrete than the abstract view of woman being a human being, as man is
Man represents both positive and neutral, leaving woman as only the negative
Being a man is no peculiarity
Man ignores his hormones and the fact of his anatomical glands
Humanity is male, and man defines woman
Not in herself but as relative to him
Humanity is male, and man defines woman
Not in herself but as relative to him
What is a woman? A woman is not a man
What is a woman? A woman is not a man
This is more concrete than the abstract view of woman being a human being, as man is
You think thus and so because you are a woman
(I think thus and so because it is true)
You think thus and so because you are a woman
(I think thus and so because it is true)
You think thus and so because you are a woman
(I think thus and so because it is true)
What is a woman? A woman is not a man
What is a woman? A woman is not a man
This is more concrete than the abstract view of woman being a human being, as man is
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“It is maddening to listen to discussions of five genders when every sane person knows there are but two sexes, both of which are rooted in nature.”
Stop infant genital surgery
If we protest the genital mutilation of other cultures, then we must also protest our own
Infant genital surgery is cosmetic surgery performed to achieve a social result, and it does not work
Early genital surgery leaves long-term scars, requires further surgeries, and frequently negates the possibility of orgasm
Stop infant genital surgery
If we protest the genital mutilation of other cultures, then we must also protest our own
Infant genital surgery is cosmetic surgery performed to achieve a social result, and it does not work
Early genital surgery leaves long-term scars, requires further surgeries, and frequently negates the possibility of orgasm
Stop infant genital surgery
Stop infant genital surgery
Let there be no unnecessary infant surgery
Let physicians assign a provisional sex to the infant
Let the medical care team provide full information and long-term counseling to the parents and to the child
Let there be no unnecessary infant surgery
Let physicians assign a provisional sex to the infant
Let the medical care team provide full information and long-term counseling to the parents and to the child
Two of nine reports never state criteria for success
Four emphasize cosmetic criteria
Only one considers psychological health or does long-term follow up
Children adjust to the presence of anomalous genitalia and manage to develop into successful, functional adults
No woman or man fits the universal gender stereotype
No woman or man fits the universal gender stereotype
No woman or man fits the universal gender stereotype
No woman or man fits the universal gender stereotype
Let there be no unnecessary infant surgery
Let physicians assign a provisional sex to the infant
Let the medical care team provide full information and long-term counseling to the parents and to the child
Let there be no unnecessary infant surgery
Let physicians assign a provisional sex to the infant
Let the medical care team provide full information and long-term counseling to the parents and to the child
No woman or man fits the gender stereotype
No woman or man fits the gender stereotype
No woman or man fits the gender stereotype
No woman or man fits the gender stereotype
Stop infant genital surgery
Stop infant genital surgery
Stop infant genital surgery
Stop infant genital surgery
Stop infant genital surgery
Stop infant genital surgery
Stop infant genital surgery
Stop infant genital surgery
Stop infant genital surgery
Stop infant genital surgery
Stop infant genital surgery
Stop infant genital surgery
It is possible to envision a new ethic of medical treatment, one that permits ambiguity to thrive, rooted in a culture that has moved beyond gender hierarchies
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Sexuality
05:25
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Sexuality is implicated
Sexual violence is not just violence
The common male sexual role centers on aggression intrusion on those with less power
Such dominance is experienced as sexually arousing, and thus sex becomes an act of domination
Women are not a second class
Women are not a second class
Women are not a second class
Women are not a second class
Women should never be constrained, contorted, servile, self-mutilated, humiliated, or passive
A person should never be reduced to a thing
A person should never be reduced to a thing
Sexuality is made in social relations of power in the world, through which process gender is also produced
The hegemony of the male-dominated social construct “desire” produces sexuality, and thus the construct of “woman”
Dominance eroticized defines masculinity
Submission eroticized defines femininity
Women are not a second class
Women are not a second class
Women are not a second class
Women are not a second class
Women should never be constrained, contorted, servile, self-mutilated, humiliated, or passive
A person should never be reduced to a thing
A person should never be reduced to a thing
Sexuality is implicated
Sexuality is implicated
Sexuality is implicated
Sexuality is implicated
Sexuality is implicated
Sexuality is implicated
Sexuality is implicated
Sexuality is implicated
Dominance eroticized defines masculinity
Submission eroticized defines femininity
This sexuality itself is the dynamic of the inequality of the sexes
Dominance eroticized defines masculinity
Submission eroticized defines femininity
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Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which men keep all women in a state of fear
Sexual violence is a tool of patriarchy as well as colonialism and racism
Racism is the condition that makes it acceptable to put certain people to death in a society of normalization
Rape is never “traditional” or “cultural” behavior
All people deserve bodily integrity
Sex should never be a weapon of hate
Sex should always be an act of love
Sex should never be a weapon of hate
Sex should always be an act of love
Native American women are bearers of the counter-imperial order and are a significant threat to the dominant culture
Immigrant women have long endured a history of sexual exploitation in the US due to racially discriminatory employment laws and promises of a stable marriage or job only to become trapped in the sex trade
Sex should never be a weapon of hate
Sex should always be an act of love
Sex should never be a weapon of hate
Sex should always be an act of love
Sex should never be a weapon of hate
Sex should always be an act of love
Sex should never be a weapon of hate
Sex should always be an act of love
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Human relations are defined by the self and the other
The other is inevitably seen as an antagonist
The person unsuccessful in opposing the other’s values has to accept the successor’s values and become submissive
Heterosexualism is men dominating and deskilling women and women devaluing and devaluing female bonding
In the US women cannot appear publicly without some men advancing on them presuming access to them
When a woman is accompanied by a man; however, she is usually no longer considered “fair game”
Protectors interact with women in ways that promote the image of women as helpless
Men open doors, pull out chairs, and expect women to dress in ways that interfere with their own self-protection
What a woman faces in a man is either a protector or a predator, and men gain identity through one or another of these roles
What radical feminists have exposed through all the work on incest and wife-beating is that protectors are also predators
Of course, not all men are wife or girlfriend-beaters, but over half who live with women are
Heterosexualism has certain similarities to colonialism, particularly in its maintenance through force when paternalism is rejected, and its portrayal of domination as natural
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Prison labor is exploited by private corporations for products such as circuit boards, limousines, waterbeds, and Victoria’s Secret lingerie
Mounting prison populations are not due to increased levels of crime
Racism and the pursuit of profit tie together corporations, government, correctional communities, and the media
Prisons must no longer be the dominant mode of punishment
The millions of men, women and children behind bars deserve a more humane, hospitable environment
Punishment must be conceptually separated from crime
Punishment is linked to economical and political structures and ideologies
Prison populations are racialized in the US, Europe, South America, and Australia
Although the prison industrial complex is not replacing the military industrial complex, they mutually support and promote each other
Social destruction reaps profits for both
Prisons must no longer be the dominant mode of punishment
The millions of men, women and children behind bars deserve a more humane, hospitable environment
Turning imprisoned bodies who are mostly bodies of color into sources of profit devours public funds that could be otherwise used for social programs such as education, housing, childcare, recreation, and drug programs
Prisons must no longer be the dominant mode of punishment
The millions of men, women and children behind bars deserve a more humane, hospitable environment
During the 1980s corporate ties to the punishment system became further entrenched
Prisoners in the US have always constituted a potential profit source
They have served as valuable subjects in medical research, providing a link between universities and corporations, that of the prison
Prisons must no longer be the dominant mode of punishment
The millions of men, women and children behind bars deserve a more humane, hospitable environment
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Oppression
04:53
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The root of oppression is press
Something pressed is caught between or among forces and barriers so related that they together restrain, restrict, or prevent the thing’s motion or mobility
People who are oppressed are required to smile and be cheerful or else they are perceived as mean, bitter, angry, or dangerous
Women in the US are often caught in a bind where neither sexual activity nor inactivity is all right
If she is heterosexually active a woman is punished as being loose, unprincipled, or a whore
On the other hand, a woman who refrains from heterosexual activity is harassed to relax and is threatened with labels such as frigid, uptight, man-hater, and bitch
If a woman who has been heterosexually active is raped she is subject to the presumption that she liked it, since she has been known to like sex
If a woman who has not been heterosexually active is raped she is subject to the presumption that she liked it because she was supposedly repressed and frustrated
If one dresses one way one is subject to the assumption of advertising one’s sexual availability
If one dresses another way one appears to not care about one’s self or to be “unfeminine”
When you look macroscopically you can see a network of forces and barriers that are systematically related and conspire to immobilize, reduce, and mold women and the lives they live
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Privilege
04:24
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If you can say you don’t care about age
You’re in a position of privilege
If you can say you don’t care about race
You’re in a position of privilege
If you can say you don’t care about sex
You’re in a position of privilege
If you can say you don’t care about sexuality
You’re in a position of privilege
If you can say you don’t care about wealth
You’re in a position of privilege
White people are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege
White privilege is like an invisible, weightless knapsack of special provisions, assurances, tools, maps, guides, code books, passports, visas, clothes, compass, emergency gear, and blank checks
If you can say you don’t care about body type
You’re in a position of privilege
If you can say you don’t care about ethnicity
You’re in a position of privilege
If you can say you don’t care about gender
You’re in a position of privilege
If you can say you don’t care about religion
You’re in a position of privilege
If you can say you don’t care about age
You’re in a position of privilege
Rarely will a man go beyond acknowledging that women are disadvantaged to acknowledging that men have unearned advantage, or that unearned privilege has been good for man’s development as human beings or society’s development
Or that privilege systems might ever be challenged and changed
We must give up the myth of meritocracy
One’s life is not what one makes it
Many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own
Many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own
We must give up the myth of meritocracy
One’s life is not what one makes it
One’s life is not what one makes it
We must give up the myth of meritocracy
If you can say you don’t care about...
You’re in a position of privilege
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Gender
02:50
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Gender is not a stable identity
Gender is tenuously constituted in time
It is an identity instituted through a stylized repetition of acts
Gender is instituted through the stylization of the body
It must be seen as the acts that constitute the illusion of an abiding gendered self
Gender is not a stable identity
Gender is tenuously constituted in time
It is an identity instituted through a stylized repetition of acts
The body is a set of possibilities, therefore its appearance is not the manifestation of an interior essence, and its concrete expression in the world must be understood as within a specific set of historic possibilities
Gender is not a stable identity
Gender is tenuously constituted in time
It is an identity instituted through a stylized repetition of acts
The association of a natural sex with a discrete gender
And with an ostensibly natural attraction to the opposing sex or gender is an unnatural conjunction of cultural constructs in the service of reproductive interests
Gender is not a stable identity
Gender is tenuously constituted in time
It is an identity instituted through a stylized repetition of acts
Gender is not a stable identity
Gender is tenuously constituted in time
It is an identity instituted through a stylized repetition of acts
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Gendered family radically limits the quality of opportunity of women and girls
Of all classes, as well as that of poor and working class children of box sexes
Some instances of vulnerability that may at first appear natural
Are in fact to a greater or lesser extent due to existing social arrangements
Marriage and the family
As currently practiced in our society
Are unjust institutions
They constitute the pivot of a societal system of gender
That renders women vulnerable to dependency, exploitation, and abuse
Socialization and the culture, in general, place more emphasis on marriage for girls than for boys, and young women are more likely than young men to regard having a good marriage and family as important
A cycle of power relations and decisions pervades both family and workplace, and the inequalities of each reinforce those that already exist in the other
Marriage and the family
As currently practiced in our society
Are unjust institutions
They constitute the pivot of a societal system of gender
That renders women vulnerable to dependency, exploitation, and abuse
Marriage
Marriage
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