EN 2012 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Perception, Hermaphrodite, Trans Woman
17 Apr 2016
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Women are not a natural group but defined by social class. Women"s bodies and minds are distorted by ideology to a politically motivated category of woman. Oppression is a natural consequence of women"s nature . No biological, psychological, economic fate that determines figure that the female presents in society. Idea defeated by lesbian: they are not men because they don"t own women but they are not women because they are not owned by men. To not be a woman means refusing social ideas of femininity. Destroy one gender to destroy both (need the slave and the owner) Patriarchy reinvents physical features by how they are perceived: if you look female then you are female. Social role of women is to belong to men. Women made for servitude and physical, economic obligation to men. Language gave men access to all but women are a special interest group . Destroy gender in language because it restricts universally broad statements to men.
