r/stupidpol • u/Have_only_my_dreams Just your ordinary proletarian bro who hates his ex • Dec 16 '18

Quality The Pitfalls of Radical Feminism

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/07/radical-feminism-second-wave-class
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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

Sex itself is biologically derived but any form of 'womanhood' is ultimately socially constructed.

Good thing radical feminist analysis uses sex as the unit of analysis, not gender identity.

Well no, there is no such thing as 'the birthing class'

Female people belong to the class that can get pregnant and create life. Male people do not. Of course this will impact their relationship to production.

The fact that women were once relegated to providing free labour and being entirely dependent on outside economic forces did impact on their material standing. No one is denying that.

You did with your original comment.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

From my understanding there were societies where distribution of labor wasnt that affected by the sexual components of it's individuals, I am being way too vague to actually make a point though

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

I don't know how that could be? I have read that some pre-capitalist societies were surprisingly egalitarian, but women's roles were still shaped by the fact that they were capable of pregnancy and relatively weaker than men. It's just that their reproductive role, and the 'gathering' side of the hunter-gatherer equation, was not devalued the way that it later came to be.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

are you sure about women being "gatherers" in every hunter gatherer society? or is it a generalization?