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    Claiming that gender is a product of oppressive social fo... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The sex/gender distinction has unintuitive and undesirable ontological commitments that render the distinction politically unhelpful.

    Claiming that gender is a product of oppressive social forces implies that feminism's goal should be to eliminate the categories of women and men.

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    Mikkola (2011) argues that the sex/gender distinction, which underlies views like Rubin’s and MacKinnon’s, has certain unintuitive and undesirable ontological commitments that render the distinction politically unhelpful. First, claiming that gender is socially constructed implies that the existence of women and men is a mind-dependent matter. This suggests that we can do away with women and men simply by altering some social practices, conventions or conditions on which gender depends (whatever

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