R. A. Briggs

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Elucidations · Episode 106: R. A. Briggs discusses gender · 22 Jun 2018 podcast

You might even think it started out as a category of women.

Didn't get destroyed by this liberalization of who is allowed to enter and exit.

And so didn't become a category of men.

So you have these sort of two functionally indistinguishable social classes where one's a class of men and one isn't.

So the stuff that they share in common can't be enough to determine whether you have a class of men or you have not a class of men.

Mostly.

So I think being a Sheila and being a boy can't consist in satisfying certain stereotypes, nor can they consist in having certain physiology, nor can they consist in sort of any mixture of stereotypes and physiology.

Right, and that's what's required in particular to be sort of a man or a woman.

So the thought experiment is really about the category as man and woman, and we actually don't.

Really?

Yeah, but not about the category gender, for instance, and not about the category as Bloke and Sheila, except insofar as they relate to man and woman.

Right.

So the thought experiment doesn't really speak to those.

It's just sort of a counterexample to accounts of man and woman that define them only in terms of reproductive biology and sort of social role right now without looking at the history.

So I think the big picture motivation is to have concepts that are well designed to fight sexism and transphobia.

Haslanger is sort of focused on the project of fighting sexism, and her central examples are examples of cis women who make up the majority of victims of sexism.

So I think that's completely fair, although if you don't happen to be a cis woman, that's sort of no consolation to you, and your interests matter too.

So the nice thing about Haslanger's definitions is that they sort of

let you see this common anti-oppression project that all women have.

I think a limitation of the definitions is that they

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