Judith Butler refers to gender as “the apparatus by which the production and normalization of masculine and feminine take place along with the interstitial forms of hormonal, chromosomal, psychic, and performative that gender assumes.” (Butler, 2004) Gender is a vehicle people use to traverse through life. It is a tool used to experience life. However, gender brings many significant problems to society like violence against women, gender roles, trans-misogyny, economic inequality, and rape culture to name a few.
Reformists believe that if gender is tweaked and gender roles are widened, then cis and trans women will no longer face sexism and trans misogyny. Ultimately, this perspective does not solve the root of inequality among different genders. …show more content…
Maleness and Masculinity necessitate violence. “The violence of gender cannot be overestimated. Each trans woman murdered, each intersex infant coercively operated on, each queer kid thrown onto the streets is a victim of gender. The deviance from the norm is always punished.” (“Gender Nihilism: An Anti-Manifesto,” 2015) The increase in new gender identities and sexual orientations attempts to create ways in which we can be liberated from gender, but falls short. Since tweaking gender has not produced radical results, the only way to proceed is to remove the institution itself. “Gender equality” cannot truly exist if the construction of gender still exists because the purpose of gender was used to subdue a group of …show more content…
That is incorrect. Power structures create identities like white, male, cisgender, and straight for the purpose of exploitation. Identities like “whiteness” would not exist if white supremacy did not exist, because white supremacy created the identity of “whiteness” in the first place. In order for white supremacy to create an identity like “white”, it had to create justification (biological essentialism) for why some people belong in that category and why others don’t.
The belief that “man” or “cisgender” have some kind of basis in scientific truth was created by those power structures. Liberal feminism does not challenge this essentialism. It says “it’s wrong men treat women this way” instead of addressing the core issue and saying “masculinity/maleness is a violent construct in itself. Liberal feminism implies that power is something you innately have, instead of something that your identities are constructed by, and a structure that you’re located
Reformists believe that if gender is tweaked and gender roles are widened, then cis and trans women will no longer face sexism and trans misogyny. Ultimately, this perspective does not solve the root of inequality among different genders. …show more content…
Maleness and Masculinity necessitate violence. “The violence of gender cannot be overestimated. Each trans woman murdered, each intersex infant coercively operated on, each queer kid thrown onto the streets is a victim of gender. The deviance from the norm is always punished.” (“Gender Nihilism: An Anti-Manifesto,” 2015) The increase in new gender identities and sexual orientations attempts to create ways in which we can be liberated from gender, but falls short. Since tweaking gender has not produced radical results, the only way to proceed is to remove the institution itself. “Gender equality” cannot truly exist if the construction of gender still exists because the purpose of gender was used to subdue a group of …show more content…
That is incorrect. Power structures create identities like white, male, cisgender, and straight for the purpose of exploitation. Identities like “whiteness” would not exist if white supremacy did not exist, because white supremacy created the identity of “whiteness” in the first place. In order for white supremacy to create an identity like “white”, it had to create justification (biological essentialism) for why some people belong in that category and why others don’t.
The belief that “man” or “cisgender” have some kind of basis in scientific truth was created by those power structures. Liberal feminism does not challenge this essentialism. It says “it’s wrong men treat women this way” instead of addressing the core issue and saying “masculinity/maleness is a violent construct in itself. Liberal feminism implies that power is something you innately have, instead of something that your identities are constructed by, and a structure that you’re located