lesbian-lizards:femsolid: Apparently this needs to be said ; when you quote someone or pretend to
lesbian-lizards: femsolid: Apparently this needs to be said ; when you quote someone or pretend to know a writer it would be better if you actually read her book. When Simone De Beauvoir said “one is not born a woman she becomes one” she was not thinking of trans women. She was exposing gender as a social construct that needs to be destroyed in order to free women. She was talking about femininity and submissiveness forced down women’s throats since birth and then presented as our innate nature (or what trans activists would call “cis privilege”). She was saying the way women behave and the way women are presented is litterally man made. Which is exactly the opposite of what some trans activists say when they maintain that there is such a thing as a male brain and a female brain, that one knew they were actually a woman because even as a kid they loved playing with dolls, that one is a man trapped inside the body of a woman because they reject femininity. Only a dishonest person and/or someone who simply has not read her books would try to quote De Beauvoir out of context and use it to mean the opposite of what she meant. “If, well before puberty and sometimes even from early infancy, she seems to us to be already sexually determined, this is not because mysterious instincts directly doom her to passivity, coquetry, maternity; it is because the influence of others upon the child is a factor almost from the start, and thus she is indoctrinated with her vocation from her earliest years.” Simone De Beauvoir, not quoted out of context. The fact that pro-gender people have latched onto that quote like it’s a positive thing is really telling.. -- source link