dora ♡’s Reviews > Who’s Afraid of Gender? > Status Update

great connections between the fear of gender ideology and critical race theory but i kind of…already knew that? who was this chapter written for?

uhhh 性别 is NOT a radical inclusive term and it doesn’t mean gender and in fact it turns sex and gender into one word…also nobody uses 两性 that word has a number in it why would it be used to mean sex/gender…what are we even saying right now

“given that it was western cash that galvanized the anti-gay movement in uganda, one can see how an african country dependent on foreign aid and religious funding is pushed and pulled by the funders […]. one can see why some scholars hold that gender and sexuality conflicts in uganda are ‘proxy wars’ launched by western states.”

woahh this is interesting

i didn’t know pope francis said all that :(((

“many people refer to ‘sex’ as if it is an obvious fact, based on observation. […] consider, however, that sex assignment is not simply an announcement of the sex that an infant is perceived to be; it also communicates a set of adult desires and expectations. […] so sex assignment is not a simple description of anatomical facts, but a way of imagining what they will mean, or should mean.”

(continuation of my last update) (re: the idea that gender is a single, evil ideological movement)

“is this a description of gender studies, or a mirror reflection of a form of religious orthodoxy that has projected its own operation onto gender, figuring it as a rival orthodoxy?”

many conservatives & others tend to make the assumption that reading certain material means you’re blindly accepting & following & being indoctrinated by the ideologies in the book, and this assumption was def something i feared before starting this book. BUT the author addresses this in the introduction LMAO - “gender critics imagine that their opponents read gender theory as they themselves read the bible...”