There's been an enormous shift in my lifetime. When I was in my teens, 20's, and 30's, the progressive thing was to say that one's gender is defined strictly and completely by what's between your legs. The reason that was considered progressive was because it meant that you could wear whatever you wanted, work at whatever job you wanted, love whoever you wanted, have whatever personality was natural to you, and NONE of that could take your gender away from you. It was a position that was designed to push back against a world where people were told that "real" men didn't cry or cook or be gentle or wear colors and "real" women didn't swear or wear trousers or be assertive or work on cars. I'm a woman because I have female genitals, and this frees me to fix my own car, be assertive, wear trousers, and do other things that were seen as things that women "didn't" do
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Thanks so much for your comment. I wasn't paying attention to being progressive when I was younger and now I have some catching up to do. I appreciate you explaining your thoughts!
I'm sorry, life got... let's go with 'super ugly', and I didn't have the chance to reply to this as I'd have liked. Thank you very much for taking the time to write this out, I appreciated this obviously well considered response greatly. (Regardless what JKR's motivations are...) I firmly believe that there can be different underlying reasons for one and the same behaviours and I try to make an effort to evaluate motivation instead of simply looking at the end results. It's not always easy, definitely not always successful, and I've found this a topic where it's been more difficult to articulate where some of those differences lie than most.
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No, you are just feisty. And I think it's a very practical rule!
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This is a great perspective and very well said.
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Your response did so *perfectly*.
Thanks again. ❤️
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