R. A. Briggs

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

A second problem is that if you build oppression into the definition of woman, you might make it sort of mysterious why anybody should want to belong to that category.

And if you build privilege into the category of man, you might make it very suspicious that anybody should want to belong to that category who wasn't assigned to it.

Yeah, that's a thing that I have heard people say that I think is unfair.

Yes.

So I think that we can keep something like Haslanger's definition as a sort of maybe slightly mythic story about how genders might have arisen in the first place.

So you can think of what in the paper that we're talking about is.

my co-author and I call primordial genders as being social roles that are assigned just completely based on sex.

Now maybe there have been such roles in the past, maybe there haven't been, but in some way this is a useful approximation to the way the world works.

Yeah, that's a helpful way of thinking of it.

So you have primordial genders, which are social categories, but then social categories can persist and keep on existing, even if the rules governing them change.

So this is true of a lot of social categories.

So you can introduce, say, the Stanford University Anime Club for the appreciation of anime.

And your bylaws might originally sort of say that we can only watch Utena Tenju, Revolutionary Girl.

And then you can have appreciators of other forms of anime come in and say, no, we're going to change the bylaws and make them more flexible.

And maybe we're going to be the anime and comics club even.

But the club can persist through all these changes in rules because it's sort of continuous.

Like it's got overlap in members.

It's got overlap in social role.

It's got sort of gradual change of rules.

And genders can be like that.

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