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Lokomotive293
26th December 2012, 10:24
I noticed that there seem to be conflicting demands between Feminists and the LGBTQ movement. For example, the demand that no one should be required to identify as a certain gender would conflict with the demand for quotas for women. Now, I think both demands are valid and important, and I'm somewhat confused as to how to reconcile them. What are your opinions on this?

Trans Queers for Satan
26th December 2012, 10:48
As a trans queer woman:
That's not entirely true; feminism doesn't necessarily encourage people to identify with non-cis gender identities, but just tries to (and fails to in my opinion) accept people who do identify as trans/non-binary. Likewise, they pursue (half-heartedly) anti-discrimination legislation for trans people. They're trying to cover both bases - trans people and women.
But honestly, the LGBT movement, as well as feminism (and even so-called "radical" feminism), are pretty bourgeois and, well, liberal. They put forth a very shallow analyses of gender and sexuality and appeal mainly to middle-class white people, so they're really of little consequence to radical leftism of any kind.

ind_com
26th December 2012, 12:59
What if identifying with one of the genders is made voluntary?

TheGodlessUtopian
26th December 2012, 13:21
I noticed that there seem to be conflicting demands between Feminists and the LGBTQ movement. For example, the demand that no one should be required to identify as a certain gender would conflict with the demand for quotas for women.

"quotas for woman"? Can you explain this a bit?

Lokomotive293
26th December 2012, 15:38
"quotas for woman"? Can you explain this a bit?

E.g. if you elect people to certain positions in a political organization, you have a quota of at least 50% women, in a debate, after a man, there should always be a woman speaking, and the other way around,...
It's something that's pretty common in left organizations, which I think is good, but it becomes a problem when you have people who don't identify as either man or woman. I don't think people should be required to identify as a certain gender, though, and that is where the conflict comes in.

ind_com
26th December 2012, 15:57
If those who don't want to identify as men or women form a sizable portion of the population, then we can have quotas for them too.

The Garbage Disposal Unit
26th December 2012, 17:24
Are women the subject of feminism? Or is the constitution of a "woman" subject necessarily the constitution of a subject-of patriarchy, and its contingent juridico-political forms? What if the historical task of women is their abolition-as-such?

*head explodes*

Danielle Ni Dhighe
27th December 2012, 01:43
Considering feminism has almost as many tendencies as the left does, it's dubious to make broad generalizations about it.

Lokomotive293
30th December 2012, 12:15
Considering feminism has almost as many tendencies as the left does, it's dubious to make broad generalizations about it.

Ok, no generalizations. How can you reconcile those two demands I listed? Should you? Is one of them wrong? Are both wrong?

Danielle Ni Dhighe
30th December 2012, 12:26
Ok, no generalizations. How can you reconcile those two demands I listed? Should you? Is one of them wrong? Are both wrong?
Between quotas for women and a demand that no one should be forced to identify as a certain gender based on their biological sex, I don't really see a conflict necessarily, even though the former sounds like a formulation of certain bourgeois feminists.