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    Feminists should give up the sex/gender distinction on pr... — Carmelics
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    Feminists should give up the sex/gender distinction on practical political grounds.

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    • 1.Butler's performativity theory shows gender norms produce the very 'sex' they claim to merely describe, collapsing the distinction from within.
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    • 2.If 'sex' is already gender, retaining the distinction smuggles biological essentialism back into feminist ontology under a naturalized label.
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    • 3.Dismantling essentialism enables coalitional politics across trans, intersex, and non-binary subjects that the sex/gender framework systematically excludes.
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    • 1.MacKinnon argues the sex/gender distinction depoliticizes oppression by framing biological sex as a neutral substrate prior to social domination.
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    • 2.Treating 'sex' as pre-political conceals how compulsory heterosexuality and male dominance construct bodily categories as instruments of hierarchy.
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    • 3.A framework that obscures the political production of bodies cannot ground the transformative legal claims feminist justice requires.
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    • 1.The sex/gender distinction commits feminism to the claim that the categories of women and men can and should be eliminated.
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    • 2.Ordinary social agents find the eliminability of gendered categories unintuitive.
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    • 3.Many ordinary social agents view their gender as a source of positive value.
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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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    MacKinnon argues the sex/gender distinction depoliticizes oppression by framing ...
    Many ordinary social agents view their gender as a source of positive value.
    Ordinary social agents find the eliminability of gendered categories unintuitive...
    The sex/gender distinction commits feminism to the claim that the categories of ...
    Treating 'sex' as pre-political conceals how compulsory heterosexuality and male...
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