Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Chinese officials stuck in the Middle Ages, still believe gender is determined

Okay, like, what century do these people live in anyway? Here is a country wanting to enter the 21st century that doesn't understand that gender is a social construct. They are obviously still caught up in the patriarchal systems of the past.

Sheez.

Maybe we could ship some professors from the University of Kentucky's Gender and Women's Studies program over to Beijing to set them straight.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

MC: Okay, like, what century do these people live in anyway?

Obviously a later one than Mr Cothran, as they seem to have an appreciation of biology.

Not everyone can be trivially assigned as either male or female.

How would Mr Cothran determine the gender of a person?

It's a complicated question to which I don't have an offhand answer.

jah