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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine
2 reviews
random19379's review
informative
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexism
Moderate: Racism
Minor: Ableism
stevia333k's review
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
tense
fast-paced
4.25
So this is a great book, and it gave me a lot of flashbacks about the sexism i faced as a kid. it gave me a lot of insight into how backwards the world i grew up in was (or how future tense i was). basically neurosexism is patriarchy trying to recuperate disability discourse in order to support segregation. the book describes this sort of backwardsness as a "half-changed world". basically fascists thought propaganda would maintain gender roles even though if people adhered to those they would starve to death from bullshit wages.
there were 2 points towards the end that were bullshit though:
- when the ideal of "gender neutral parenting" still keeps the stereotype of gender identity with genitalia, it's still sexist, it's still cissexist & it's still transphobic. like to say the least, it would be vulnerable to people who lose their genitalia or "2ndary sex characteristics" to injury, sickness, treatment, etc. (the genitalia doesn't break the stereotypes, it's merely 1 stereotype of many.)
- the penultimate paragraph shares a finding that "peak rigidity" about gender stereotyping hits at age 5 or 7, which is utter bullshit considering how tgnciq+ kids get targeted for bullying & such adults get targeted by sexist laws etc. There's even been a prison pipeline!
there were 2 points towards the end that were bullshit though:
- when the ideal of "gender neutral parenting" still keeps the stereotype of gender identity with genitalia, it's still sexist, it's still cissexist & it's still transphobic. like to say the least, it would be vulnerable to people who lose their genitalia or "2ndary sex characteristics" to injury, sickness, treatment, etc. (the genitalia doesn't break the stereotypes, it's merely 1 stereotype of many.)
- the penultimate paragraph shares a finding that "peak rigidity" about gender stereotyping hits at age 5 or 7, which is utter bullshit considering how tgnciq+ kids get targeted for bullying & such adults get targeted by sexist laws etc. There's even been a prison pipeline!
Children's views about gender differences reach "peak rigidity" between five and seven years of age.[17] From then on, they increasingly understand that it is not only boys who like ot be active, and make things and sometimes be nasty, and it is not only women who can be affectionate, cry, and clean and tidy the house. (The few children who don't come around to this insight often go on to have very successful careers writing popular books based on rigid gender stereotypes.)[18]
[17] Trautner, H.M., Ruble, D.N., Cyphers, L., Kirsten, B., Behrendt, R., & Hartmann, P. (2005). Rigidity and flexibility of gender stereotypes in childhood: Developmental or differential? *Infant and Child Development, 14*(4), 365-381
[18] This is a joke, rather than a scientific fact.
[There's more to this paragraph I'm going to just paraphrase to save on typing. She subtlely critiques this finding by saying these implicit stereotypings show up when the survivors get into positions of power, but frankly, I think this is too weak of a criticism (similar to how I think reducing gender stereotyping down to just genitals is anti-trans & anti-intersex, and gives too much wiggle room which neurosexism developed in), and ignores anti-bullying activism & the school to prison pipeline. Granted this book is from before 2007, but still.]
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Sexual harassment, Transphobia, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Medical content, Bullying, Misogyny, Sexism, and Classism
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