Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.
We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.
We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.
I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.
I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.
When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.
For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
I describe myself as a human being.
I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.
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