The Gender Paradigm with Abigail Favale
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The Inconsistency of the Essentialist Narrative in Feminist Theory
One of the worst things you could be in feminist theory is an essentialist. Someone who believes that there's an essence, a nature, there's an is-ness. And yet talk about the inconsistency or certainly seeming inconsistency with the trans movement. How do we get from basically gender is a social construct to gender is profoundly real? Because those are two very different concepts.
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