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“Finally, the dirty little secret about sexual objectification is that it is an act that cannot be performed with any attention to its ethical meaning. Experientially from the point of view of a man...”
“But the idea of an Aryan race could never become metaphysically true, despite all the violence unleashed to create it, because there simply is no Aryan race. There is only the idea of itand the con...”
“Sex has to do with your physical body, while gender has to do with your social expression of a range of masculinities and/or femininities (and/or neutralities).”
“If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called sex is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the...”
“Griffin Hansbury, who was born female but underwent a sex change after graduating from college, has another well-informed view of the powers of testosterone. The world just changes, he said. The mo...”
“What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go?”
“[In reference to cases of testicular feminization]: The incredible lesson about our sexual biology is that all men at one point in their fetal development have the capacity to be women. Moreover th...”
“John [the father] kept saying, "You have a penis. That means youre a boy." One day, Shannon noticed that her son had been in the bathroom an awfully long time and pushed the door open. "He had a pa...”
“I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dy...”
“I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.”
“By claiming that our words are too hard to understand, the media perpetuates the idea that WE are too hard to understand, and suggests that theres no point in trying.”
“Leadership is the act of serving others and has no gender preference.”
“She must have already forgiven him for leaving her behind. Girls were good at colouring in those disappointing blank spots. I thought of the night before, her exaggerated moans.”
“I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.”
“Mack, don't you see how filling roles is the opposite of relationship? We want male and female to be counterparts, face-to-face equals, each unique and different, distinctive in gender but compleme...”
“I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women dont have to learn.Vokep shook his head grimly. Its the kids, he said. Having babies. Makes em propertarians. They wont let go. He sighed. T...”
“Words change depending on who speaks them; there is no cure. The answer isn't just to introduce new words (boi, cis-gendered, andro-fag) and then set out to reify their meanings (though obviously t...”
“Marain, the Cultures quintessentially wonderful language (so the Culture will tell you), has, as any schoolkid knows, one personal pronoun to cover females, males, in-betweens, neuters, children, d...”
“The tape measures and weighing scales of the Victorian brain scientists have been supplanted by powerful neuroimaging technologies, but there is still a lesson to be learned from historical example...”
“And do stop trying to determine if I am a man or a woman. The fact is I'm a good part both and therefore neither one. I was just explaining to your Aunt Queen. I was born endowed with the finest tr...”
