Da Feminism Thread

[Viking]

You mean, the difference between sex and gender, right?

I meant what I wrote, word by word according to common meanings of these specific words.

The percentage of women in the world who are treated badly because of their gender is much, much higher than 10%, and it's disingenuous of you to imply as such.

No person lives in all cultures at once. Feminism claims validity and relevance in every contemporary society. Furthermore, if the degree of which females within the same culture feel treated badly because of their gender varies greatly (from rape and murder on one end, to simply being laughed at in certain situations at the other end), then feminism also becomes weak, because gender becomes only one factor out of many. Seemingly the one factor that has the least to say when you remember that the physical gender necessarily will play a great role when it comes to how people are treated, simply because the physical properties of a person put limits on which roles are possible (example: a female in a former society was not likely to be treated like a melee warrior, because she was not likely to be a relevantly useful one).

Pretty much everything is an ideology, and it's a poor argument to say that something is bad because it's an ideology. Geertz neatly summed up these arguments as falling into the familiar paradigm "I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology."

Everything is not an ideology. That would make the word meaningless. An ideology is something comprehensive, a big body of thought and ideas to explain the world or society; or at least considerable parts of it. An ideology is not something you create for a cause. Rather it is something that decides which causes are worthy.