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No, masculinity did.
(Okay, I'm over-simplifying, just watch the video!)
Isn't that kind of the point? Masculinity and femininity are two groups of performances and signifiers that are collaboratively and continuously defined and redefined by the groups that perform them. There is no "true" or "essential" masculinity or feminity, only the ones we assert and perpetuate.
Well some of the second wave radical feminists theorized that "masculinity" was essentially defined to justify the oppression of women and all its core traits are necessary for that. As I read it, if men stopped oppressing women, whatever new thing they were now doing would be so different than today's masculinity that it wouldn't even make sense to use the same word. Like how there could be no "bourgeois identity" under communism, or no "whiteness" after white supremacy. They think that there's some real-but-untrue thing meant by masculinity, not just whatever men do. Which is interesting but does backfire and reify the concept of masculinity. I'm still thinking it over. Source Refusing to Be a Man
Isn't that kind of the point? Masculinity and femininity are two groups of performances and signifiers that are collaboratively and continuously defined and redefined by the groups that perform them. There is no "true" or "essential" masculinity or feminity, only the ones we assert and perpetuate.
Well some of the second wave radical feminists theorized that "masculinity" was essentially defined to justify the oppression of women and all its core traits are necessary for that. As I read it, if men stopped oppressing women, whatever new thing they were now doing would be so different than today's masculinity that it wouldn't even make sense to use the same word. Like how there could be no "bourgeois identity" under communism, or no "whiteness" after white supremacy. They think that there's some real-but-untrue thing meant by masculinity, not just whatever men do. Which is interesting but does backfire and reify the concept of masculinity. I'm still thinking it over. Source Refusing to Be a Man