Word: genders
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...reader is left wondering: Does sexual difference exist? If so, is it natural or artificial? Should it be exalted or condemned? Must the hierarchy of masculine and feminine be nullified, and, if so, by what paradigm can it be replaced? Is the cultivation of a new model of gender, beyond the binary of male and female, possible? Or can gender only be overcome when female becomes male—when sexual difference ceases to serve as an a priori...
Ultimately, Beauvoir wanted to have it both ways. Rebuffing the idea of a fixed female essence, Beauvoir envisioned a woman who realized herself in economic and social independence. At the same time, she upheld the need for gender difference, however qualified, deriding women who denied their femininity and became no more men than women in the process. Since gender equality entailed neither difference nor imitation, and the biological binary of XX and XY occluded any middle ground, Beauvoir seemed to render all feminist stances equally untenable...
Other spectators and performers joined in the game of performing gender-nonconformity...
...people don’t understand that not everybody in society feels they can be defined,” Flieux said, “and drag makes people think outside of the box and outside of gender definitions...
Boyonce and the Gaga-lookalike, who goes by Golda Mansacks, lip synced for their lives together to “Telephone,” shaking their way through the audience and ending with a catfight onstage. People from all corners of the pub had moved closer to watch, and gender-bending spectators and sports-watchers alike cheered for the glittering duet...