The "standard" model (for gender)
Okay, I thought I should post this summary, its hardly going to be exact because I'm not brilliantly read in the area (I've picked it up piecemeal from reading the odd theory or activist book), but its got some useful concepts in that are handy for discussion (oh and yeah, I'm aware that a lot of these areas can overlap quite happily :) My view of
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I’m up for hearing other concept of how we can overcome gender as an oppressive force, redefine it, change it, or morph our epistemological understanding of it. But I have a hard time supporting the abolition of gender within all epistemologies and frameworks. I’m not even sure if abolishing gender within a Western epistemology is possible, but working within my own understanding and cultural framework seems a far better approach than attempting to abolish a concept that I not only feel people identify with on a deep level within my own culture, but also exists in so many variant forms within and outside of Western culture, that attempting to abolish it means colonising the world with my understanding of gender first.
Abolishing gender really seems like an impossible task, I mean how would you? And why would you? It seems like saying "Well this concept doesn't work for me, so lets brainwash a few million people who don't have a problem with it into agreeing that its silly"
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