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3590278 No.3590278[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

On Monday I'm giving my first ever lecture. I'm going to tell a bunch of freshmen that gender is mostly a construct and that identity is actually just performance just to spite you, /lit/.

>> No.3590286
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3590286

That's nice.

>> No.3590284

That will not spite me. I already know gender is a construct since I'm a membre of the GCC (Gender Construction Comittee). Now you can easily guess which minority I'm from.

I'm jewish

>> No.3590288

>>3590284
Can you construct a new gender for me?

I'm thinking of something along the lines of my genitals being a sound frequency rather than a physical body-part. I attain sexual stimulation by humming at the specified frequency while retaining eye contact with my sexual partner.

>> No.3590292

>>3590278
>gender is mostly a construct and that identity is actually just performance

When they look back on this era, it will be seen as something along the lines of "a complacent and bored time, where problems had to be invented".

>> No.3590297

>>3590292
Gender seems like a legitimate and clear problem for society to overcome. Whether identity is essence or performance is a bit more abstract and wishy-washy.

>> No.3590299

>>3590297
>Gender seems like a legitimate and clear problem for society to overcome.

More so than poverty, hunger, drug abuse, wars, famines, autocracy, ethnic cleansings, exploitation of children, sex trafficking, etc. etc.

>> No.3590303

>>3590297

whats there to overcome?

how will womens studies defend me from muggers, put food on my plate, and provide stimulating media and activities?

>> No.3590304

>>3590297
Complaining that your persecuted because halfway through your life you decided, for whatever reason, to identify your gender as something indefinable, abstract, and nonsensical like "genderqueer" or "third gender" is an invented problem.

>> No.3590306

>>3590288
Unfortunately we only construct genders for the sake of oppressing the masses (particularly the white male masses). Ask /pol, they know all about it. Well, a great deal of it at least.

But your idea is interesting. I will suggest it to the next Committee General Assembly. We're currently searching a strategy for oppressing the masses of the green superior martian worm. This might help.

>> No.3590308

and this is related to literature... how?

>> No.3590312

>>3590308
The OP had words in it.

>> No.3590316

>>3590299
I figured that was where you were going, but I don't see the logical connection. Seems totally silly to rank social problems, anyways. Presumably we have an ability to combat more than one at a time, and as a literary teacher "gender construction" is more in my purview than ending ethnic cleansing. An understanding of gender construction is useful to combating sexism and homophobia. It also helps a person understand and come to peace with himself.

>> No.3590321

>>3590316

your idea of combating sexism and homophobia is attacking meaning untill we cant talk about it anymore.

>> No.3590326

Do whatever you please guys. We will eventually come down with a new construct to construct you into submission. Yeah, we're that sneaky.

Literature is a good example. It's a social construct we made to prevet /lit from enjoying books.

>> No.3590343

>>3590321
This seems like a legitimate tactic. If we reject an essentialist view of gender and sexuality, then sexists and homophobes have no ground.

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>>3590343

except when you do that, youre throwing out the baby with the bath water.

inotherwords, if you deny judgment, youre denying all forms of authority, credential, science, and any sort of normative stance to begin with.

>> No.3590370

Say what you want we're all going to die so it's not like anything matters

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>>3590343

1984? control thoughts through suppressive language?

>> No.3590404

>>3590354

christ, i'm a feminist and reading that pic made me want to punch a baby

>> No.3590422

>>3590278

This isn't /pol/. and As a feminist I think that's a valid viewpoint.

>> No.3590424

as a feminist, i'd like to say that science and logic are tools of the patriarchy
problems that need to be penetrated into and "solved"?

>> No.3590429

>>3590278
lol Foucault
lol post-feminism

lol

>> No.3590431

>>3590278

So you're teaching Judith Butler?