Timeline for How do I know if a concept is sexist or not?
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| Oct 7, 2020 at 23:56 | comment | added | Acid Kritana | Also, I don't really like "Women's and Gender Studies PhD candidate[s]". My question is, what exactly do people get from that kind of college/University? What does it do for a job? What does it do for a person? I'm not kidding or anything, but what does it do? I'm actually curious. | |
| May 19, 2020 at 19:06 | comment | added | Acid Kritana | I honestly agree, yes, let's have women review it. But let's also look at how the men are affected in this story. What do they have? And for trans men, would they not have the magical powers, or would they? The world is made up of more than one gender. | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 16:35 | comment | added | Amadeus | But by the nature of the requirement, it is specifically elevating female fertility as something very highly valued (else there would be more familiars in the fictional world). This whole proposal is about finding something so valuable (to women) that they would forgo power to keep it. That happens to resonate with many sexist memes IRL, namely those supporting the idea that women exist primarily as incubators for children, their primary role is to be a wife and mother and provide sexual relief to their man, who is the "breadwinner", protector, decision maker and leader. | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 14:56 | comment | added | user49466 | Please read my previous statement. | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 2:22 | comment | added | Pharap | I agree with @eyeballfrog. "elevate fertility as something of value" implies fertility isn't already valuable - but clearly the ability to continue the human race is valueable, without that ability there would be no more humans (though some would argue that's an improvement). | |
| Jul 17, 2018 at 0:45 | comment | added | user49466 | It, arguably, is. The catch is picking that particular thing of value, out of all the other things of value, as a plot device, in an explicitly gendered context. | |
| Jul 17, 2018 at 0:42 | comment | added | eyeballfrog | "I ran this by her, out of curiosity, just to understand the perspective of your friend, and she said its 'flirting the line' because its elevating fertility as something of value." ...is it not? I'm confused by what she means by this. | |
| S Jul 16, 2018 at 23:43 | history | suggested | Malady | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 16, 2018 at 21:48 | comment | added | ale10ander | agree with a lot of this, especially your last paragraph -- it depends a lot on the handling. If every woman in the story treats it like a big deal, that could be a problem. If you have characters who say "great, yeah, wasn't planning on having children, gimme that magic!", you add nuance. Nuance is always better in these types of scenarios. The POV of "ability is better than lack of ability, even if one prefers not to exercise that ability" is something that should be considered. +1 from me. | |
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| Jul 16, 2018 at 19:14 | history | answered | user49466 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |