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Feminism & Psychoanalysis with Mari Ruti

Why Theory

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Are You Bovari and Feminist?

I want to get rid of feminism by getting rid of gender, basically, or at least the gender, gender binary. I mean, that's why, like, when I was growing up in Finland, there was no discourse of feminism because no one paid any attention to gender. And so my, my sort of personal version of feminism has always been to deconstruct that binary so that you can be whatever it is that you are as a singularity of your being. It's such a simplistic way of understanding people that it makes me completely crazyBecause it does interest us to like everyone, not just women, but also men. It simplifies everything. It thinks that it knows more than it

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