On the Social Construction of Sex

[WolfpackN64]

vivster said:

o_O.Q said:

"Which rights and protections that women have and are not based on their biological features do you mean?"

since "woman" also includes biological men who identify as women, how would you tell the difference?

"They are empty classifications that don't mean anything and are just used to divide and single out people."

and you don't think there's any utility in classifying people? not to mention that people are going to do it anyway subconsciously outside of its utility

when the group of guys agrees that the woman across the street is hot, that's classification

when the woman and her friends agree that the guys are creepy because they are staring at her that's classification

when the cars pull to the side of the road because they hear sirens, that's classification etc etc etc

yes when taken too far this can cause harm but its kind of an inherent part of reality

"Calling for special attention to just one biological gender is a slap into the face of everyone else."

you have an interesting perspective on this, so things like metoo are just women being hysterical?

You still haven't answered my Question. And the correct answer to your question is that there is no difference and there is no need for one unless for medical purposes.

What you describe is exactly what I mean. There are already perfectly fine descriptions for people. Why do you have to say "I'm attracted to women" when that's maybe not necessarily the case? What you're attracted to are entirely psychological and physical features that can be present in any kind of human, no matter the biological gender. There are trans people who look indistinguishable to the opposite sex. So instead of saying "my sexual preference are women" why not just say the physical and psychological features you find attractive when the gender doesn't matter at all. So yes, if we scrap useless genders, then sexual preference will become that of features instead of genders. You can be attracted to tits or penises or both, who cares? What biological gender you are and what the biological gender of your preferred sex partner is is laughably irrelevant. It's only made relevant by the classification of genders and by what's "normal". Which is another issue in itself. More than 50% of humans are attracted to penises, it shouldn't matter what you yourself possess.

The metoo movement is about sexual abuse, not women. It's only currently based around a single gender because of the exact problems I described. Genders that shouldn't exist anymore still exist and humans still love to divide by those highly arbitrary lines.

You do realize sexual preferences are quite hardwired in our brains? People are heterosexual or homosexual by birth. So naturally one can perfectly say "I'm attracted to men or women" and include the cultural conception of binary gender alongside their sexual preference. That trans people might have similar features is besides the point. I don't want to have a relationship with trans people, that's also a preference.