The Importance of Gender as a Social Construct

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts. Jordan Peterson is characteristically emblematic of a drive to purge the world of all illusion. Assumptions about gender belonging to fixed binary systems illustrate our denial of the world as illusion, and therefore further remove us from our world. As both Bodeard and Butler demonstrate then, to acknowledge the fluidity, diversity, and multiplicity of gender as a social construct allows us to move closer to the reality of the world, not further away from it.