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How Gender Is Destroying Sex | Abigail Favale

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The Central Irony of Feminist Thought

The central irony of feminism is that it's ostensibly a movement meant to defend women, but it's also very reluctant to say with any clarity what a woman is. The idea that women are real talk to us about that because it sounds counter to it, right? It's like feminism means standing up for women, but we don't know what aWoman is. And so the solution to the problems that women face is essentially one kind of Marxist utopia: Women need to be made free from their femaleness and able to move in other ways.

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