Heh. I love historicism. It's kind of my schtick to understanding philosophy. Part of that is it gives me a more concrete way of understanding the rel...
But that's just the impetus for these thoughts, and the relevance of a contemplation on gender with respect to the material choices we make on gendere...
The impetus for the thread began with the practical question of gendered bathrooms. Or, at least, that's how I'd put it -- the other side puts it sexu...
Heh, I'm enjoying reading along. I'm contemplating, now, how to make the material dimensional aspect of a critique of gender more explicit. And I feel...
I don't think so. Entropy is too rarified a concept to include in what I'd call what we face on the day-to-day. It's too complicated, and for specific...
In terms of chemistry I know the difference, though if pressed I always have to look up what enthalpy means. Enthalpy is one of those terms that highl...
Oh I don't mind the category Feminist, insofar that I get to express what I mean. And in philosophical discussion the norms are such that you can clar...
Here's where my in-between-ness will be a handicap more than a help. I started on Derrida a long time ago before I was really able to comprehend him, ...
I'll take a plain language stab at it @"Janus" Derrida is saying, at a minimum, that "tone, language, posture, gesture," are philosophically important...
Probably unsurprising, but I'm going to say that all bodies are not disgusting. Bodies are an abstraction from the concrete perception of another indi...
I think that's a great scene. Given Woody Allen: I think he was expressing his own anxiety about sexual contact but then putting it out there out larg...
Oh yeah. I like analytic philosophy, but I'm basically team continental, if I'm forced to choose. Also, often true! In philosophy it's more explicit, ...
I'm stretching so I'm not sure what I'm saying, exactly. But yup! I'd add that if we're consistent then language, in all its forms, is nothing but ook...
More imaginative wonderings that should be taken with salt: I think the response from the realist side would be "what is "ultimate" doing in your sent...
I don't know Lawson, but I also don't mind taking a stab at odd questions. Take my imaginative wonderings for what you will. At the very least I gathe...
I think we're in agreement here then. :) There are advantages to writing -- and just like the fruit from the tree of knowledge between Good and Evil, ...
Do fatbodies have societal-wide ramifications? I'm a good ol' fatbody. I don't mind being naked, but some others mind it if I am. But, really, I didn'...
Links for me. I like the ones wrapped up in intestines rather than the ones that taste like patties that are link-shaped. I like bacon, but more in th...
Nah, I didn't think you were. I think you're voicing your actual thoughts. That's a good thing, especially for men I think, because men rarely talk ab...
For myself I don't think gender is our behavior as much -- that's pretty close to a trait, though a step removed. Rather it's part of our identity, an...
A tactic I'm familiar with: "In saying your identity fits with +/+ you're saying you don't know what it is to be a real man. So the entire conversatio...
"Negation" as in "does not express" rather than "is in opposition to" -- so if you do not express femininity, then "-" would be applicable in accord w...
You're right to point both of these things out. I hope to avoid both. We share uneasiness about both justifications/beliefs/thoughts. I think there's ...
For me a critique of masculinity coupled with an acceptance of my own femininity is enough -- so androgenous man. I picked the term up from a book on ...
Can one cease to be themselves in public? Can we just put our identities away for propriety? Well, we can if we're being punished at least. But I don'...
What about economy? Things like private/public property distinctions? I can't find enough in law -- but counting sea-shells that aren't even collected...
Yup! That's exactly what I'm talking about. But I'm still *just* attached enough to my male-side that I prefer to say androgenous man. I, too, am atta...
Yes -- but I've been acknowledging biology while saying it's the one with lesser influence on identity. Testosterone, I think, actually is an importan...
Yes. Though my preference is to say "adulthood", in truth. I'm a man, but I can tell that my own mode of expression differs from a lot of people who a...
Yup. I think bringing class into the mix only heightens the notion of patriarchy, rather than downplaying it. The reason it's convenient to say that w...
I agree that these questions come up, and that asking "as opposed to...?" is a good avenue -- and I'm offering childhood as opposed to feminity as the...
I agree with your first sentence, but I disagree with your last one. The cause is social I think, primarily, though I'm not a priori refusing genetic ...
Asking this is sort of like asking me why I'm not interested in being or becoming something I'm not. I grew up into something but I don't think it fit...
Wonderful reflection. Thank you for sharing. Responsibility, action, loyalty, aggression, providing protection to the vulnerable, and sexual attractio...
Cool. I think we're pretty close in our understandings then. It took me a long time to even acknowledge evolutionary forces on the human psyche becaus...
This has been quite a range of responses! I'm going to start with a general reflection. One is that I think the lack of really caring about one's masc...
Cool. :) I've read Of Grammatology deeply, and Voice and Phenomenon through a reading group here. Some other stuff to help understand, but my interpre...
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