Why, it is quite usual in a certain brands of feminist scholarship. Not all of them, and of course I am being tongue-in-cheek here as the full argument is more complicated, but the point still stands - it is not unusual.
Nothing wrong with not being up on all that stuff! I've got a nagging suspicion that most of the people who consider themselves experts are pretending.
I'm no expert either, but while I've never heard of that feminism, I have read about feminism which that could easily be a strawman of (either the Judith Butler social construct thing, or possibly something written in response to Spurs and Lacan's work and the idea of absence/lack, which you mainly encounter in French feminism).
Attacks on feminism often seem to miss the point, though, in my experience.
Social construct is what I've meant, especially when it said not only about gender characteristics (with which I agree) but about sexual ones too. Basically, that very definition of who counts as male and who as female is arbitrary.
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Why, it is quite usual in a certain brands of feminist scholarship. Not all of them, and of course I am being tongue-in-cheek here as the full argument is more complicated, but the point still stands - it is not unusual.
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Attacks on feminism often seem to miss the point, though, in my experience.
And as I've said, I was not entirely serious
Afro Man made a song called "Girls" talking about how awesome any and all females are.
Even the lesbian ESPECIALLY THE LESBIANS